Pre-Penitent Magdalene
'The Pre-Penitent Magdalene'
Category: Paintings
Artist: Chris Gollon
Subject: Studies Stations of the Cross
Year of Work: 2003
Media: mixed media on canvas
Size: 40" x 30"
SOLD
Private Collection, UK
This painting is one of a number of studies for the Magdalene for Gollon's 'Stations of the Cross. In this painting, the artist has chosen to imagine Mary Magdalene in her previous life as a courtesan, before meeting Jesus. Yet the Cross around her neck hints at that future influence, and the way she holds the arrow that also points to that, perhaps shows her acceptance of her fate.
Chris Gollon's 'Stations of the Cross' in Church of St John on Bethnal Green, London:
Stations of the Cross (I): Jesus is Condemned to Death (Final Version)
'Stations of the Cross (II): Jesus Takes Up His Cross' (Final Version)
Stations of the Cross (III): Jesus Falls a First Time
'Stations of the Cross (IV): Jesus Meets His Mother' (Final Version)
Stations of the Cross (V): Simon the Cyrenean Helps Jesus'
'Stations of the Cross (VI): Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus'
Stations of the Cross (VII): Jesus Falls A second Time
Stations of the Cross VIII: Jesus Speaks to the Women of Jerusalem
Stations of the Cross IX: Jesus Falls A Third Time
Stations of the Cross (X): Jesus Is Stripped Of His Garments
Stations of the Cross XI: Jesus Is Nailed To the Cross
Stations of the Cross XII: Jesus Dies On The Cross
Stations of the Cross XIII: Jesus Is Taken Down from The Cross
