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Myra (painting)
''Myra'' is a large painting created by Marcus Harvey in 1995. It became notorious when it was exhibited at the ''Sensation'' exhibition of Young British Artists at the Royal Academy of Art in London from 8 September to 28 December 1997.
==Painting==
The work measures . At first sight, it resembles a greatly magnified version of a black and white photograph printed in a newspaper. It was made using casts of an infant's hand to build up a mosaic of black, grey and white handprints, creating a reproduction of the iconic police photograph of a hard-faced Myra Hindley with bouffant peroxide blonde hair taken after her arrest in 1965 (although often reported to have been taken around the time of the trial of the Moors murders in 1966). The photograph is widely recognised in Britain, having been published in British newspapers in the decades after Hindley's conviction.〔("Image that for 36 years fixed a killer in the public mind", The Guardian, 16 November 2002 )〕 Harvey has said, "The whole point of the painting is the photograph. That photograph. The iconic power that has come to it as a result of years of obsessive media reproduction."〔(White Cube: Marcus Harvey )〕 The painting consciously juxtaposes, as Jennifer Friedlander describes it, the tiny handprints of an "innocent child" and the "depraved world of adults", writ large on a gigantic canvas.〔("Feminine look: sexuation, spectatorship, subversion", Jennifer Friedlander, SUNY Press, 2008, ISBN 0-7914-7295-7, p.80, 88 )〕
Harvey has also commented: "I know enough to know that she probably didn't do any of the murders, that she was just in a relationship where she was probably too attached to the man who was doing it to extricate herself. That her life was probably too dull and boring to throw the relationship away ... I don't believe that's 30-years-worth of reputation as one of the most vile and notorious murderers in British criminal history."〔(White Cube: Marcus Harvey, The Hand That Rocked the Academy by Gordon Burn ), The Guardian, 6 September 1997〕
Harvey's agent bought the work, and sold it to Charles Saatchi for £11,000. Saatchi later sold it for an estimated £100,000.〔("Myra, Margaret and me", The Guardian, 21 February 2009 )〕 It is now owned by US commodities trader Frank Gallipoli.〔(Where did all the Sensation art go?, 2 October 2006 )〕
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