Art Gallery Of Ontario

Sacrifice 1989 acrylic on canvas Gift of The Estate of Denyse Thomasos, through the American Friends of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Inc., 2022 2022/9 Audio description of the work This work is a figurative painting in a portrait orientation and is about the size of a queen size mattress at 6 and a half feet or 2 meters tall by 5 and a half feet or 1.7 meters wide. It depicts a black horse suspended in a white cloth harness dangling beside a mound of skulls piled against an interior wall. The colours in this work are hues of browns with beige and yellow tones. With it’s body facing right, the dark horse dominates the top half of the painting. The harness has openings for the horse's legs and its tail. In the upper right corner is a high up small deep set window. It’s bright on the other side of it.The horse’s head is down and it has its nose in what is presumably a bag of feed. Thin rope dangles down at the far left and connects to a large heavy counterweight which is a long sack that lays on the gr