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Leda
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Title |
Leda |
Size |
30.4 x 25.1 cm |
Date Published |
1995 |
Reference |
Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue
Raisonné (Odana
Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 1999, cat.309) |
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| Norman Lindsay translated his passion
for Greek myths into numerous pictures. The legend of Leda and
the
Swan has been the subject
of art and literature since the time of Homer. Zeus, the king of
the gods of Olympus, transformed himself into a swan so that he could
seduce Leda, the wife of King Tyndareus of Sparta. Helen of Troy
was one of the children of this union. In Lindsay's sensitive etching
Leda, the seduction is shown by the statue in the background. This
latter-day Leda, in serenely contemplating the swans, is creating
her own myth. |
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