The Serpent Chooses Adam and Eve
1958 artwork by George Cohen
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The Serpent Chooses Adam and Eve is an oil/mirror collage laid on canvas created by George Cohen in 1958.
ArtistGeorge Cohen 
Year1958
| The Serpent Chooses Adam and Eve | |
|---|---|
| Artist | George Cohen |
| Year | 1958 |
This key work caused "something of a sensation" at the 1958 Carnegie Invitational. Cohen combined deliberately clumsy, pictographic painting with collage, pasting in a round mirror and a hank of Eve's hair. Mirrors, he explains, "are the supreme illusion; they mock both the viewer and the painting."[1]
It has been owned by the Alan Gallery, Carnegie Institute Department of Fine Arts, San Francisco Museum of Art, and Richard L. Feigen Gallery before its storage.