Like most of the female figures in Hopper's paintings, this one was based on his wife, Jo, who posed standing under a lamp in the hall of their apartment. Her stationary figure counterpoints the screen with its incessantly flickering illusions of places not here and not now. ![]() ![]() Probably seen the movie a thousand times and waits for the curtain, mulling over her own thoughts. Spirits us as audience, that is, but not the usher, who has ![]() Stairway at 48 rue de Lille, Paris 1906Ī movie theater in New York, one of those elaborate mock palaces where Hollywood spirits us for a few hours into another world - in this case apparently the high mountains.
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