Maria and Johannes, from the Grunewald Series

Artist: Arnulf Rainer

1978

Photograph, overpainted with grease crayon and oil paint

Yale University Art Gallery

Two figures, one in white drapery and the other in darker clothing, are depicted in a close embrace. Black grease crayon and oil paint have been applied over a photograph, obscuring parts of the figures' faces and bodies with gestural marks. Two figures, one in white drapery and the other in darker clothing, are depicted in a close embrace. Black grease crayon and oil paint have been applied over a photograph, obscuring parts of the figures' faces and bodies with gestural marks. Maria and Johannes, from the Grunewald Series Artist: Arnulf Rainer (Austrian, born 1929) Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss, B.S. 1940S