Adrian Feint
(Australia 29 Jun 1894–25 Apr 1971)
Flowers in sunlight
- Other titles:
- Flower piece
- Location
- 20th & 21st c Australian art
- Further information
His was an exquisite art that mirrored the tranquillity of his life and the refinement of his tastes … in his flower pieces, his imagination found an outlet in combining man-made objects from other lands with flowers and growths of the sandstone belt of our eastern seaboard. These are not flower pieces in the common-place and finite sense; they are flower arrangements meticulously designed, superbly painted, and set in a related environment of time and space.
Douglas Dundas, 1971
Adrian Feint was a student at the Sydney Art School under Julian Ashton and Elioth Gruner, his painting practice extending from his work as a modern designer. As his subject in 'Flowers in sunlight' suggests, Feint’s still lifes have also been noted for their surreal quality, achieved through a synthesis of an almost analytical realism and the subdued mood of expansive backdrops, creating worlds of pure aesthetic illusion.
- Year
- 1940
- Media
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 50.5 x 45.5cm stretcher; 70.6 x 65.5 x 6.0cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.r. corner, dark red (oil?) "Adrian Feint/ 1940".
- Credit
- Purchased 1940
- Accession number
- 7001
- Copyright
- © Estate of Adrian Feint
