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In the House of the Gods 1989
Oil on paper
Paper 39 x 26 in. / 99 x 66 cm | Frame 46 x 32.5 in. / 117 x 83 cm
Signed Rene Ricard lower edge in pencil
in the House of the Gods / After tap dancing too long on Olympus, one should find a quiet spot on Parnassus outside the shade of some other monument.
This wistful painting in red and teal contrasts Olympus, mythical home of the Roman gods, with Parnassus, home of the muses. With his encyclopedic knowledge of art history Ricard would have been familiar with Raphael’s Vatican fresco The Parnassus (1509-11), which pictures Apollo on a grassy knoll surrounded by the nine muses and eighteen poets. One can imagine Ricard right at home in the bucolic scene.
