Francesco Clemente
Prosperity

Prosperity

© Francesco Clemente

Prosperity
Prosperity
CultureItalian
Titles
  • Prosperity
Date2014
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions72 × 72 in. (182.9 × 182.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Alex Katz Foundation
Object number2016.75
Non exposé

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Description

A global traveler,
Francesco Clemente has made several extended trips to Brazil, where he studied
Candomblé, a pantheistic religion that came from West Africa in the sixteenth
century by means of the international slave trade. Still practiced today,
Candomblé venerates the forces of nature. With Prosperity, Clemente draws on the iconography of Candomblé to
express his own beliefs in mystical renewal. Three orixás, or deities, are presented in an altar-like tableau:
Iemanjá, the blue goddess of the ocean
;
Oxóssi, the green god of the forest and the hunt; and Oxum, the golden goddess
of calm water.




















ProvenanceThe artist; Alex Katz Foundation, New York, 2015; given to MFAH, 2016.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Verso: Signed and inscribed in graphite, center top edge of canvas: Francesco Clemente 'Prosperity' 2014
Verso: Signed and inscribed in graphite, center top edge of canvas: Francesco Clemente 'Prosperity' 2014
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