Queen Elizabeth II for its Platinum Jubilee has an extra portrait. On Saturday 4 June, the third day of the celebrations for the 70th anniversary of the throne, the online platform West Contemporary Editions will officially unveil The Platinum Queena work signed byLiverpool artist Carne GriffithsAlso known as The Organic Painter and known for the creative use of unconventional mediums such as tea, ink and alcohol. The new portrait shows us the young Elizabeth just before the coronation, which took place in Westminster on June 2, 1953: “I thought it was a particularly touching moment that of His Majesty about to ascend the throne,” explained Griffiths. The original painting has already been sold at a charity event. But on June 4 they will be on sale on the online platform of the West Contemporaty Edition – at a cost of 1550 pounds each (just over 1800 euros) – 70 prints exclusive handmade. Part of the proceeds will be donated to Great Ormond Street Hospital of which Elizabeth II is patron. To choose the London hospital dedicated to children it was Griffiths himself, for the care his newborn daughter received them in 2012.
Griffiths’ work extends a list very long of portraits of the queen. Only the official ones are 130two of them with the Duke of Edinburgh. The first dates back to 1933, when he was 7 years old, commissioned to the Hungarian painter Philip Alexius de Laszlo. On the other hand, there are thousands of reproductions with his face made in every creative field, sculptures, record covers, serigraphs, stamps, wax statues, fashion headgear and even street style works. Legendary Andy Warhol’s color serigraphs from 1975, Reigning Queens, when the then king of pop art said he wanted to be as famous as Queen Elizabeth. The sovereign, a great lover of art, bought it to put it in the Royal Collection.
On the other hand, among the many gifts of Elizabeth there was that of understanding the importance and power of her public image. And in the days of the Platinum Jubilee that image is receiving an avalanche of tributes. The most spectacular? Eight portraits of the queen during her 70-year reign have been screened on Stonehengethe 5,000-year-old stone monument in Salisbury, England.
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Portraits of the queen projected on Stonehenge
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