Durand Chronology



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	Durand Black Horse of Famine London	1986	London - New York - Ottawa s a c r e d ECCE EQUUS, four large compositions inspired by the Book of Revelation, painted to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the United Nations Children's Fund in the Year of Children's Rights and benefit UNICEF. Unveiled by Jeanne Sauvé, the Governor General of Canada at the National Arts Centre: The powerful message conveyed by these four major works cannot be ignored if we are to offer the children of a tomorrow a better world in which to live. Jeanne Sauvé
	Greg Louganis (study)		p o r t r a i t ALEX BAUMANN SEBASTIAN COE LIBERACE GREG LOUGANIS

	Votive Offering (modello)	1987	London a l l e g o r y VOTIVE OFFERING Painted to benefit Crusaid, and to commemorate the visit of Diana, Princess of Wales to the Broderip Ward, Middlesex Hospital. Unveiled at St James' Church, Piccadilly, London, November 1st.
	Votive Offering (study) Votive Offering Peterborough Cathedral 1988		Diana, Princess of Wales with Sunnye Sherman, the first American to die from an AIDS related illness. As a depiction of salvation and sanctification through martyrdom, VOTIVE OFFERING implicitly protests the existential fatalism and dispiriting nihilism that have darkened much ‘modern art’ since the Second World War. It is a piece of defiantly un modern art, perhaps even anti modern art, in its enthusiastic homage to the Renaissance. But ‘homage’ is perhaps too weak a word for Durand’s bold appropriation of Renaissance imagery; so too is allusion. VOTIVE OFFERING not only alludes to votive offerings and altarpieces by a host of Renaissance artists but also reflects aspects of their deeper, densely symbolic designs such as triptych structure and sacred symmetry. Perhaps return is the best word to describe Durand’s approach to his cinquecento sources. He has returned to them in a spiritual and philosophical as well as a visual sense in order to recreate something divinely powerful, something harmoniously healing in the pristine, yet archaic art of idealised forms. Prof. James Miller, Kingston University, London, Ontario In combining two very real women, Diana, Princess of Wales and Sunnye Sherman, in a present-day hospital ward, with archetypal representations of saints and patients, Durand has set the modern scourge of Aids in an historic context creating an atmosphere of timelessness and healing. Rose Elliot The power of Votive Offering is to evoke so many different responses: painful sympathy, warm compassion and ardent admiration. Baroness Jay Votive Offering is the heir to five centuries of European figure painting. Cecil Gould I have been studying your work for more than ten years now, and Votive Offering is the most important picture I have yet seen. I agree with Cecil Gould this masterpiece is the heir to five centuries of European figure painting. Bless you for the splendid work you have done and are doing. Alistair Cooke

		1988	London Canterbury Edinburgh Glasgow Liverpool Peterborough Wells Winchester Montreal Exhibition, VOTIVE OFFERING, the subject of a lecture by art historian Cecil Gould at Canada House, London and the source of several essays exploring the ways in which artists respond to AIDS. The picture made a pilgrimage jouney to cathedrals in England and Scotland, and was shown at the International AIDS Conference in Montreal p o r t r a i t Durand begins two life-size portraits of H H Dalai Lama

	H H the Dalai Lama with a Sarus Crane	1989	Strasbourg p o r t r a i t Second sittings with the Dalai Lama in Strasbourg, resulting in two portraits posed at the behest of Labour peer Lord Ennals. H H DALAI LAMA WITH A SARUS CRANE H H DALAI LAMA, THE JEWEL IN THE LOTUS Durand attends the Council of Europe 'Colloquy on the Universality of Human Rights in a Pluralistic World'.
	San Miniato al Monte		Florence As the guest of the Benedictine monks at San Miniato al Monte, Durand was the first artist since Michelangelo to have lived within the monastery. Durand began a series of paintings inspired by the life and miracles of St Benedict. Studies extensively the archaeological site at Paestum.

	Ordination	1990	Arezzo, San Sepulchro, and Florence Continued work on sacred pictures started at San Miniato and made exhaustive studies of the pictures of Piero della Francesca.
	Epiphany		s a c r e d EPIPHANY THE CHOICE OF BROTHER MICHAEL GOOD FRIDAY SUN INITIATION ORDINATION THREE MONKS CONTEMPLATING A STATUE OF APOLLO ROUND ART
	Marchese Emilio Pucci di Barsento al Cavallo (detail) Maria Victoria Corti Grazzi (detail)		p o r t r a i t MARCHESE EMILIO PUCCI DI BARSENTO AL CAVALLO DONATELLA GRILLI MARIA VICTORIA CORTI GRAZZI EMANNUELLE CORTI GRAZZI GUILIO & FRANCESCA MILLONI

	Father Rookey	1991	London Fire On 7 October 1991 there was a fire at the warehouse of James Bourlet & Sons Limited. At the warehouse, but within a strong room, a number of valuable works of art were stored; these included some of Durand pictures as well as works by Hockney, Frink, a pastel painted by Degas and bronzes by Rodin. Durand's works in progress, his library, archive and studio equipment, as well as his entire personal collection of pictures by other artists are destroyed. Among the pictures lost was Durand's VOTIVE OFFERING of 1987.

		1992	London By October 1992 Durand began to paint again following the fire. Working with the pictures blocked in at San Miniato, Durand introduces new elements, in particular the symbol of the male nude, juxtaposing pagan and Christian iconography.

	Sebastiano del Piombo Death of Adonis, 1513 Uffizi Florence	1994	London Exhibition of DEATH OF ADONIS, after Sebastiano del Piombo's painting of the same title, unveiled by Cecil Gould at Academia Italiana, London.

	Dame Vera Lynn (detail) Isabell Kristensen Isabell Kristensen	1995	London p o r t r a i t Dame Vera Lynn unveils her portrait by Durand at the Imperial War Museum. DAME VERA LYNN ISABELL KRISTENSEN ISABELL KRISTENSEN WITH HER DAUGHTER MIRANDA TWISS MAESTRO (Craig Funke) THE TRIUMPH OF BEAUTY OVER TRUTH AND TIME (Josephine Cooke, Lady Rumbold, Jane Cook) ELEANOR ROBINSON IN ROME
	Three Princes		a l l e g o r y THREE PRINCES Allegorical portrait of the Prince of Wales with his sons, William and Harry. Commissioned by George Elrick of Amphion Art for the Grand Order of the Water Rats; unveiled at the Café Royal, November.
	Loggia (detail)		LOGGIA Allegorical portrait of Craig Funke (left) with Durand, Rubens, Titian and Michelangelo.
	Julian Hosking Pegasus (detail)		Greece m y t h o l o g y Re-explores classical sites, Corinth, Olympia, Epidauros and Delphi in preparation for CLASSICAL FRAGMENTS. London PEGASUS The prototype for the fair-haired hero on the winged stallion and hence the nimble pose, was the spirit of the classical dancer Julian Hosking, a muse for Durand not just as a subject for his painting, but in life. Hosking’s career with the Royal Ballet was distinguished but brief – he died in 1989 at the age of thirty-four – but not before he combined his dancing with studies of Egyptology, astrology and Italian painting. Hosking worked with Durand for over a decade and was often to be found researching subject matter for the artist as well as embodying for Durand the ideal male nude. A pivotal partnership, Durand pays homage to his dancer in PEGASUS.
	Marsyas Flayed (detail) Palestra (detail) Afternoon of Apollo		London m y t h o l o g y Exhibition, CLASSICAL FRAGMENTS, Archeus Fine Art, Bond Street, London. Durand continues to explore classical subject matter through the vision of Michelangelo. MARSYAS FLAYED PALESTRA AFTERNOON OF APOLLO VULCAN'S NET THE BIRTH OF THE DIOSCURI HERMES & HECATE Durand, like Winckelmann (1717-1768) believes that There is but one way for the moderns to become great, and perhaps unequalled; I mean, by imitating the ancients. Classical mythology has been a source of inspiration for the Canadian born Durand since he began painting as a boy. Today, as one the foremost painters in the world, Durand’s passion for Greek myth is evident in every picture he paints but is a view of classical mythology in the post Christian era. The advent of Christ requires a decisive change in representation and understanding of Greek mythology. Durand mythological pictures demonstrate a new, Neomodern approach to the ancient Greek myths. Megakles Rogakos, art historian and curator

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