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The Fatal Colours Oil on panel, 36 x 20.5 cm, by Charles Conder, 1888 Location unknown |
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| A stylish young woman stands in a meadow facing an advancing bull, her red-and-white dress and raised parasol turning her predicament into a pointed play on the ‘fatal colours’ of Shakespeare’s warring houses in the Wars of the Roses, red for Lancaster and white for York. The scene blends gentle humour with a hint of peril, setting her elegant city-bred poise against the brute force of the rural creature. |
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