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'Salome' was first exhibited in David McClure’s Scottish Gallery Festival Exhibition of 1969 where he presented a series of seductive nudes exploring stories of life, death and temptation. Salome became a symbol for dangerous female seductiveness and McClure alludes to this through expression, pose and imagery. The abundance of life, love and energy signified by the foliage and bird in the foreground is tempered by the wraithlike crow standing menacingly behind her, a harbinger of the death soon to envelope the biblical story of Salome and Herod through the beheading of John the Baptist. Salome, the daughter of Herodias and stepdaughter of Herod who, desirous of Salome, promised her she could have anything she wanted. Manipulated by Herodias, who detested John the Baptist, she asked Herod for his head on a platter and Herod was forced to oblige.
Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture
Edinburgh
Title
Salome
Date
c.1969
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 101.6 x W 111.5 cm
Accession number
2002.099
Acquisition method
Diploma Work deposit, 1972
Work type
Painting
Inscription description
McClure
Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture
The Mound, Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH2 2EL Scotland
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