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ily, with a life-size, photorealistic portrait of the beloved Queen Margrethe II.
Facing her is her daughter-in-law, Mary Donaldson—who, in this portrait at
least, bears a striking resemblance to another young European royal.
Rounding outthe collection is oneofits most recent works,Peter Carlsen's
Denmark 2009 —a brilliant parody of Eugène Delacroix's famous painting
Liberty Leading the People (a copy of the inspiration is on the facing wall).
Carlsen has replaced the stirring imagery of the original with some dubious
markers of contemporary Danish life: football flags, beer gut, shopping bags,
tabloids, bikini babes, even a Christiania flag. It's a delightfully offbeat (and
oh-so-Danish) note to end our visit to this seriously impressive palace.
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