Grace Cossington Smith
(Australia 1892–20 Dec 1984)
Interior with wardrobe mirror
- Location
- 20th & 21st c Australian art
- Further information
My chief interest, I think, has always been colour, but not flat crude colour, it must be colour within colour, it has to shine; light must be in it, it is no good having heavy, dead colour … The room is in my own home here, and the sunlight did not come in a definite way but the whole room seemed to be full of light, which is what I want to do more than the actual sunlight. I feel that even the shadows are subdued light and they must have light in them as well as the light parts.
Grace Cossington Smith, 1965
In this painting, short brushstrokes of pure colour animate the pictorial surface, highlighting Grace Cossington Smith’s skill as a colourist. By the mid 1950s the artist had begun to concentrate primarily on domestic interiors, party due to the fact that her much-loved sister had become ill.
- Place of origin
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Turramurra,
Sydney,
New South Wales,
Australia
- Year
- 1955
- Media
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on canvas on paperboard
- Dimensions
- 91.4 x 73.7cm board; 103.0 x 85.0 x 5.6cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.l. corner, black ink "G.Cossington Smith 55".
- Credit
- Purchased 1967
- Accession number
- OA11.1967
- Copyright
- © Estate of Grace Cossington Smith
