TINA BARNEY "THE SON" 1987 peter doig subban and nolan Despite the sometimes shocking content

Despite the sometimes shocking content of his work

Le Hibou (Rouge et Blanc) (1953)—a unique earthenware sculpture of a patterned owl—set a record for Picasso's ceramics

and represents an intersection between Toronto history

This composition is based on a glass painting Albers created in 1929 entitled "Bowers"

and Surrealism

TINA BARNEY "THE SON" 1987 peter doig subban and nolan Despite the sometimes shocking contentTina Barney is an American artist renowned for her photographs of friends and family in domestic, yet often highly charged, settings. Her images evoke both the spontaneity of documentary realism and the intentionality of directed or fabricated scenes. Her meticulous tableaux chronicle the complexity, and volitility, of interpersonal relationships. In this work, Barney presents a sense of intimacy and insight that a documentary photograph confers upon