Object number
M.2005.29
Title
Portrait of Shane Warne
Date
2005 - 2005
Creator
Production reason
Commission
Production notes
Rush: 'Initially I took some photographs of Shane as I had visualised the portrait, at The Rose Bowl, home ground of Hampshire Cricket Club where Shane was captain. Then once I had made a good start he visited my studio in Fulham a couple of times. I then went back to the Rose Bowl and painted Shane’s final sitting with the portrait propped up against the pegs in the players’ changing room'.
Material
Size
133 x 92 cm
Description
Full length, frontal portrait of a cricketer, with blond hair, wearing whites and tossing a ball. Cricket pitch and stands of the Rose Bowl, Hampshire, England in the background.
Display caption
Portrait of Shane Warne, 2007
Fanny Rush (1960)
Oil on canvas
Full length portrait of Australian international cricketer
Shane Warne standing on the pitch at the Rose Bowl,
Hampshire, England.
London based portait painter Fanny Rush painted
the’formidable and strategic bowler’ from the batsman’s
viewpoint. Rush’s intention was to create ‘powerful
shadows and hooded eyes to give a sense of menace
would instil such trepidation in the batsman that the
wicket would be psychologically lost before Shane had
even bowled’.
By cropping the image slightly tighter on the left, Rush
creates a sense of movement as if Shane is actually
striding towards the viewer, moving from side to side in
of our field of vision.
MCC Collection: Commission, 2006
M.2005.29
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