At a Glance
- Exhibition
- Leighton’s Flaming June
- Dates
- June 9, 2015 to September 6, 2015
- Museum
- The Frick Collection
1 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021
- Listing type
- Past Exhibitions
- Description
At the end of his career, the British artist Frederic Leighton painted the now-iconic image of a sleeping woman in a vivid orange gown. This nineteenth-century masterpiece embodies the modern philosophy of “art for art’s sake,” the belief that the value of art lies in its aesthetic qualities rather than in its subject matter. The sensuously draped figure — freed from any narrative context — is integrated into a harmonious ensemble of rhythmic lines and radiant color.
