Jan Senbergs
(Australia, Latvia 29 Oct 1939– )
Kitchen at Smacka's, from the series Kitchen at Smacka's
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Drawing has been central to Senbergs’ practice since the late 1970s. Kitchen at Smacka’s is a panoramic view of the artist’s studio, a cavernous space in inner Melbourne which had previously been occupied by a nightclub prominent on Melbourne’s jazz scene, named after its owner, Smacka Fitzgibbon. In the first two sheets of the four part drawing, the semi-circular dance floor can be seen, which Senbergs has retained; in the fourth sheet is the old bar.
Senbergs only submitted the third and fourth sheets of this quartet of drawings to the Dobell Prize in 1995. After they won and were thus acquired for the AGNSW collection, the artist gifted the first and second sheets of the quartet to the gallery.
- Place of origin
-
Australia
- Year
- 1995
- Media
- Drawing
- Medium
- black pastel
- Dimensions
- 153.5 x 116.0cm sheet; 153.5 x 232.0cm diptych overall; 153.5 x 464.0cm quartet overall; single frame dimension 165.5 x 126.5 x 4.2cm
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of the artist 1996
- Accession number
- 504.1996.2
- Copyright
- © Jan Senbergs
