a portrait of a person with large curls of hair

Une Bouchée d’Amour

Audrey Flack
Medium
Print
Material
Digital drawing with layered silkscreened elements
Dimensions
39 x 46cm
Date created
2013
Acquisition
Donated by Dr. Ferris Olin, 2025
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Inspired by Gian Lorenzo Bernini's The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, this work began with drawings of the angel from the celebrated seventeenth-century sculpture. Developed through a close collaboration between Audrey Flack and the Brodsky Center, the image was refined across around thirty digital iterations before the final composition, colour, scale and paper were selected.

Flack then added hand-printed silkscreen layers over the digitally printed image, creating a richly layered surface. These additions include expressive paint drips—a reference to her encounters with Jackson Pollock—as well as handwritten text and luminous highlights. The finished print comprises five distinct layers, combining digital and traditional printmaking techniques in a work that bridges historical inspiration with contemporary process.