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The painting’s title alludes to Patricia Highsmith’s influential story of dangerous adoration and unmanageable passion.
The figure’s poses, and the dynamically agitated colour, illustrate a chronicle of love that is both desperate and impossible.
(Self and Other, 2003)
- Artist
- Jeffrey Harris
- Title
- This sweet sickness
- Production date
- 1984
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 2138 x 1520 x 35 mm
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Mr and Mrs A T Gibbs, 1994
- Accession No
- 1994/1/5
- Copyright
- Copying restrictions apply
- Department
- New Zealand Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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