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Lot 47
[Australian artists] increasingly turned to still-life as a means of developing modernist expression. Still-life painting had featured in Australian colonial life and experienced another brief flourishing in the late 19th century, but it was not until the 1920s, when it became an artistic site of modernist transformation, that it became a significant genre in Australian art.
D. Mimmocchi ‘Still-life as laboratory table’ Sydney Moderns, Art for a New World, Sydney, 2013, p.199
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[Australian artists] increasingly turned to still-life as a means of developing modernist expression. Still-life painting had featured in Australian colonial life and experienced another brief flourishing in the late 19th century, but it was not until the 1920s, when it became an artistic site of modernist transformation, that it became a significant genre in Australian art.
D. Mimmocchi ‘Still-life as laboratory table’ Sydney Moderns, Art for a New World, Sydney, 2013, p.199
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Leroy Leveson Joseph Laurent De Maistre (1894-1968)
Still Life
Closed24 September 2015
Price Realised
GBP 15,000