Welcome to the Ulster Museum in Belfast. I'm the Director of Collections, Mary

Breathnuck. As we enter the new decade of the 1970s, we face many changes to the art world. Many

national borders have fallen away, are world joining together in economic and political unity,

but as history changes before our eyes, so does it stay the same. The Ulster Museum, part of

the collected museums of Western Europa, is proud to present Red Love, the passion of Claudia Atteno,

sponsored by the Haramon Family Trust. These are Atteno's most popular works, many from the

mid-1960s when her career was at its height. Sunshine afternoon, still life was tomato plant and

sword, and even a recently discovered repainting of still life with cat. It's been some months since

anyone has seen Atteno. Some have even claimed her absence is sinister, that she is missing,

that she may even be dead, a long and brilliant career possibly cut short at its peak.

While we feel it's best to refrain from sensationalists' speculation, we are also

love to promise more art when we cannot be sure there is more to come. Thank you for choosing to

take our audio cassette tour. Your audio guide today will be Ramata Mangakahia, herself an

esteemed artist and friend to Atteno. The audio tour begins at the South entrance of Art Gallery 3.

The tour follows a candor-clockwise pattern around the exhibit. Each piece with an accompanying

audio lecture will be noted with a blue star on the numbered title card, and there will be a tone

on the recording to indicate where you may pause the cassette before moving on to the next work.

Please enjoy your visit to Ulster Museum and the exhibit Red Love.

Painting 101 still life with tomato plant and sort by Claudia Attiano Oil on Canvas 1962.

It is one of her most discussed and debated works and is one of the collection of paintings that

shifted her career from successful artist to celebrity, as much as celebrity as a painter can be

while still alive, of course. The painting sold at Sotheby's in 1969 for nearly £1 million,

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