{"product_id":"kent-monkman-officer-and-laughing-girl-new-amsterdam","title":"Kent Monkman - Officer and Laughing Girl: New Amsterdam","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note this artwork is sold exclusively through Sotheby's. Register your interest above.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLimited Edition of 50 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXP238276300 BCX4\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eSotheby’s and LITO present \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLIMITED\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: original works by contemporary artists brought to life through the LITO Hi-Rnd© process, with texture, relief, and color.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXP238276300 BCX4\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXP238276300 BCX4\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOfficer and Laughing Girl: New Amsterdam\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 2026, is an exclusive limited-edition artwork\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e created in response to the artist’s solo exhibition \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eKent Monkman: Officer and Laughing Girl\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e at The Frick Collection, on view from November 12, 2026, to February 22, 2027. Taking inspiration from Johannes Vermeer’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOfficer and Laughing Girl \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(ca. 1657), one of the Frick’s three paintings by the seventeenth-century Dutch master, Monkman revisits the celebrated composition to examine the histories of global trade, colonialism and cultural exchange through an Indigenous perspective.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith his characteristic humour and deeply researched iconography, Monkman introduces his time-travelling, shapeshifting alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, in the role of the Laughing Girl in this series. Through this intervention, he imagines the evolution of Indigenous and European encounters over five centuries, bringing together references to different eras and the cultural, technological and environmental changes that have shaped them. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew Amsterdam\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the first work in the series, focuses on a 17th century encounter between Miss Chief and an officer in the Dutch settlement of New Netherland.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReplacing Vermeer’s map in Monkman’s composition is Miss Chief’s Winter Count on buffalo hide. The pictographs are inspired by the lexicon of historical Plains Indigenous winter counts, visual records in which communities demarcated a significant event to represent each year. Miss Chief’s Winter Count records events from her millennia-long existence as related in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, written by Monkman and Gisèle Gordon. Other details in the composition such as the officer’s beaver hat, Miss Chief’s pearl jewelry and the gold coins on the table between them draw attention to the networks of trade and colonial expansion embedded within the visual language of Dutch Golden Age art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBringing the traditions of Old Master painting into dialogue with contemporary art, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eOfficer and Laughing Girl: New Amsterdam\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ereflects Monkman's ongoing practice of challenging W\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eestern representations of Indigenous peoples and their histories. Using its proprietary Hi-Rnd© technology, LITO captures the texture, colour, relief and brushstrokes of the original artwork at multiple scales. Reimagined as a limited-edition work printed on mirrored alu dibond, the edition introduces a reflective surface to highlight key elements in the composition and invite a renewed encounter between the historical image and the viewer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"LITO Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59433978921224,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0696\/5411\/8664\/files\/Kent_Monkman_Officer_and_Laughing_Girl_PS_WooFr_Front_BGW.png?v=1794319695","url":"https:\/\/lito.io\/products\/kent-monkman-officer-and-laughing-girl-new-amsterdam","provider":"LITO Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}