Vogue’s Gallery: The Horse and Rider Makes a Comeback in Art Inline

  • elizabeth peyton throne of blood
    Photo: Matthias Kolb / © Elizabeth Peyton
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    **Elizabeth Peyton’**s Throne of Blood, Toshiro Mifune, based on Akira Kurosawa’s great film Throne of Blood, is a cinematic, head-on collision with the viewer. Both horse and rider are coming straight at you at high speed.

    Pictured: Elizabeth Peyton, Throne of Blood, Toshiro Mifune, 2014; Colored pencil and pastel pencil on paper; 11.61 x 8.94 inches

  • charles ray horse and rider
    Sam Urdank
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    **Charles Ray’**s 2014 Horse and Rider, a larger-than-life-size, stainless steel sculpture of himself, slumped and wearing boat shoes, aboard a tired-looking nag, is an arresting parody of the equestrian monument. No pedestal, just the uncelebrated non-hero in heroic scale.

    Pictured: Charles Ray, Horse and Rider, 2014; Solid stainless steel; 109 1/2 x 40 x 105 7/8 inches

  • peter doig horse and rider
    Photo: © Peter Doig / Courtesy of Michael Wender Gallery, New York and London
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    **Peter Doig’**s 2014 painting, also called Horse and Rider and also a self-portrait, is a dark and enigmatically comic image of the costumed artist on a black horse—it suggests the Duke of Wellington transplanted to midnight in Trinidad.

    Pictured: Peter Doig, Horse and Rider, 2014; Oil, distemper on canvas; 94 1/2 x 142 inches

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    Genieve Figgis, unknown until a year ago, is a 42-year-old artist working in Dublin. Her 2015 Gentleman on a Horse is a spooky and mind-bending mash-up of clashing colors and peculiar imagery that sticks in your head for reasons you can’t explain.

    Pictured: Genieve Figgi, Gentleman on a Horse_, 2015; Acrylic on Canvas; 59 x 59 inches_