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Title

Untitled (Portrait of a seated woman)

circa 1930s

Artist

Adelaide Perry

Australia

23 Jun 1891 – 19 Nov 1973

  • Details

    Date
    circa 1930s
    Media category
    Drawing
    Materials used
    pencil on thin smooth buff wove paper
    Dimensions
    41.8 x 30.2 cm image; 45.8 x 34.7 cm sight/sheet
    Signature & date

    Not signed. Not dated.

    Credit
    Purchased with funds provided by the Gil & Shay Docking Drawing Fund 2018
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    11.2018
    Copyright
    © Adelaide Perry Estate

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    Adelaide Perry

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  • About

    Adelaide Perry had a remarkable facility for drawing. Her perceptive and angular rendering of form was acutely expressed in drawings from life, including portraiture, still life and the nude. As a teacher of art to aspiring professionals as well as children, she utilised life drawing and printmaking in instructing others, as well as in her own practice.

    Perry painted many portraits during her career. (Portrait of a seated woman), a portrait of an unidentified subject, is typical of the period in its presentation of a well-dressed female subject, seated demurely in half-profile.

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