Gary Hume
As work of the month we have selected Orange Glove, which is featured in our current exhibition of new work by Gary Hume. Hume's inspiration for this painting was a film-still from Broken Embraces in which Penelope Cruz gazes at her own reflection in a mirror but is rendered almost unrecognisable by a blonde, Marilyn-style wig. In Orange Glove Hume combines two great icons of cinema to create one completely original work that is potent with ideas of reality and artifice. In the white-gloss surface of the painting, he offers us just the bare necessities required to trigger recognition, transforming Cruz's face into a beautiful apparition and a pale cipher for all our desires and aspirations.
Orange Glove
2009
Enamel on Aluminium
121 × 153cm / 47 3/4 × 60 ins
Price on application