Patti Smith: O Holy Night

Dall'Auditorium della Conciliazione di Roma il Concerto di Natale a scopo benefico giunto alla 21.ma edizione. Quest'anno dedicato al progetto "Una goccia per la vita - Fondazione Don Bosco nel Mondo".

Gregg Chadwick

Litanies à la Vierge Noire (Litany to the Black Virgin)

40"x30"oil on linen 2019

Private Collection, Central City, Colorado

My oil on linen painting "Litanies à la Vierge Noire (Litany to the Black Virgin)" was commissioned by the Central City Opera as an image for their production of Francis Poulenc's choral work Litanies à la Vierge Noire. Poulenc describes the inspiration behind his sacred piece: "A few days earlier I'd just heard of the tragic death of my colleague ... As I meditated on the fragility of our human frame, I was drawn once more to the life of the spirit. Rocamadour had the effect of restoring me to the faith of my childhood. This sanctuary, undoubtedly the oldest in France ... had everything to captivate me ... The same evening of this visit to Rocamadour, I began my Litanies à la Vierge noire for female voices and organ. In that work I tried to get across the atmosphere of 'peasant devotion' that had struck me so forcibly in that lofty chapel."

The original painting was exhibited and sold at the Opera in Central City, Colorado in 2019. It is now available for prints on Saatchi Art here https://www.saatchiart.com/print/Painting-Litanies-a-la-Vierge-Noire-Litany-to-the-Black-Virgin/25560/8872744/view