This Postage Stamp Collage can be viewed in more detail on Singulart.com
The ‘humour’ of the artist comes to the fore in this image based on a Modigliani nude. The ‘hill’ which Jill is purported to have climbed with Jack can be seen through the background window, although where she has left him remains within the imagination of the audience. Meanwhile, she looks innocent of any misdoing relaxing in the studio against the flag of the ‘Union’. Modigliani’s painting of a nude in 1917 was one of the surviving canvases confiscated from a gallery by the French Police as being “offensive to modesty”. This picture is composed of approximately 2,500 used British definitive postage stamps which still remain available although no longer in print. The stamp colours are not altered and post marks are still visible on close observation giving the design provenance. The picture should not be displayed in direct sunlight although all canvases are varnished twice and have a coat of U.V. protection.