oil and acrylic on canvas
217.2 by 301cm
executed in 2001

PROVENANCE

Aquired directly from the artist in July 2002

EXHIBITED

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
'The Child: Works by Gottfried Helnwein."
November 2004, cat.no.61,pp.132-134
illustrated in color

$80,000-120,000

"Rendered from an oblique angle, his jaunty, ingenuous visage looks somehow sneaky and suspicious. His broad smile, encasing a row of gleaming teeth, seems more a snarl or leer. This is Mickey as Mr. Hyde, his hidden other self now disturbingly revealed. Helnwein's Mickey is painted in shades of gray, as if pictured on an old black-and-white TV set. We are meant to be transported to the flickering edges of our own childhood memories in a time imaginably more blameless, crime-less and guiltless... But Mickey's terrifying demeanor hints of things to come."

From "Darker Side of Playland: "Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001