{"id":13355,"date":"2021-02-12T15:08:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T21:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/?p=13355"},"modified":"2021-02-27T21:33:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T03:33:09","slug":"new-lithograph-release-mardi-gras-dog-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/new-lithograph-release-mardi-gras-dog-1991\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW LITHOGRAPH RELEASE: Mardi Gras Dog 1991"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/product\/mardi-gras-dog-1991\"><em>Mardi Gras Dog<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(30th Anniversary), designed in 1991 by George Rodrigue, is a stone lithograph printed in Paris, France in 2021.\u00a0 This Estate Edition of 90 measures 28 x 22 inches and is available for purchase from <a href=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/galleries\/\">Rodrigue Studios<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/product\/mardi-gras-dog-1991\">online<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/product\/mardi-gras-dog-1991\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13354 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Mardi-Gras-Dog-19912021-835x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"835\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Mardi-Gras-Dog-19912021-835x1024.jpg 835w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Mardi-Gras-Dog-19912021-600x736.jpg 600w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Mardi-Gras-Dog-19912021-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Mardi-Gras-Dog-19912021-768x942.jpg 768w, https:\/\/georgerodrigue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Mardi-Gras-Dog-19912021.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 835px) 100vw, 835px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 1984, George Rodrigue painted thirty canvases to be included in a book of Cajun ghost stories, one of which was the legend of the\u00a0<i class=\"\">Loup-garou<\/i>, a werewolf dog that was said to roam the cemeteries and sugar cane fields of Louisiana.\u00a0 Having no image to reference, Rodrigue turned to a photograph of his dog Tiffany, who died years earlier.\u00a0 He manipulated the shape and stance and gave her coat a matted and scruffy appearance. Under the pale light of the moon, she appeared blue grey.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until 1988, at an exhibition of his work in Los Angeles that Rodrigue first over heard the phrase, \u201cBlue Dog\u201d, leaving the artist a lot to think about when he returned to his easel in Louisiana.\u00a0 Over the next two years he experimented with the shape, changing the eyes from red to yellow and giving the dog a much friendlier persona.\u00a0 These paintings from 1989 to 1991 are transitional images, where the Blue Dog has not yet left the Louisiana landscape, but is no longer a threatening\u00a0<i class=\"\">loup-garou<\/i>.\u00a0\u00a0<i class=\"\">Mardi Gras Dog\u00a0<\/i>is one of those paintings.\u00a0 Created in 1991, the focus of the composition is the Blue Dog dressed in Mardi Gras paraphernalia, painted as though it was a Cajun person, a ghost at eye level, trapped within the artist\u2019s design and existing within an actual environment.\u00a0 This iconic painting celebrates its thirtieth anniversary this year.<\/p>\n<p>To commemorate the beginning of the transformation from\u00a0<i class=\"\">Loup-garou\u00a0<\/i>to the Blue Dog, Rodrigue Studios is proud to release a stunning Estate-stamped stone lithograph, published in Paris, France of\u00a0<i class=\"\">Mardi Gras Dog.\u00a0\u00a0<\/i>Printed on high quality rag paper by a company still producing lithographs in the traditional manner, the colors of this lithograph are rich and varied and pays tribute to the enduring work of George Rodrigue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mardi Gras Dog\u00a0(30th Anniversary), designed in 1991 by George Rodrigue, is a stone lithograph printed in Paris, France in 2021.\u00a0 This Estate Edition of 90 measures 28 x 22 inches and is available for purchase from Rodrigue Studios or online. &nbsp; In 1984, George Rodrigue painted thirty canvases to be included in a book of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":13389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-img","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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