Ruud van Empel1958World #1
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
About the work
Van Empel began his World series in 2005, staging Black children amid idyllic yet unreal landscapes. The figures of children represent innocence. These photographs have been widely imitated worldwide, for example, in fashion reportages. They also grace the covers of books by Black writers such as Maryse Condé and Farah Jasmine Griffin.
Rijksmuseum
Particulars
- Accession number
- RP-F-2016-71
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum: the museum's own open data · fetched 7 days ago
- Image: Rijksmuseum — © the artist or rights holder
