The Virgin Suicides

The Virgin Suicides  is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist and photographer  Angelo Cricchi  in 2010. Digital print from negative film 6x7.

Hand-signed , dated, and numbered by the artist on the back. The artist's stamp is present on the back as well. Edition of 5 unique specimens.

This artwork is one of the photographs of the series Gloomy Sunday realized by the artist in the 2000s.

The artwork represents a garden in front of a building where several women are committing suicide. The photograph, realized in only 5 specimens, captures a moment from the novel The Suicide Virgins by Jeffrey Kent Eugenides , published in 1993. The protagonists of the book are a group of young girls, the Lisbon sisters. They are surrounded by an aura of mystery and, after only one year, they all committ suicide.