Title
Image of plaster cast for 'Le septième voile' by Dora Ohlfsen
circa 1911
Artist
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Details
- Date
- circa 1911
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- copy print of a gelatin silver photograph
- Dimensions
- 25.5 x 20.3 cm image/sheet
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- National Art Archive. Gift of Dora Stanford 1995
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- ARC366.1.13
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Dora Ohlfsen
Works in the collection
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About
'Le septième voile' (The seventh veil) was one of a group of three nude sculptures that Dora Ohlfsen completed in the years between 1910 and 1914. The other two works were entitled 'Dawn' and 'The Pitcher goes to the fountain'. A reviewer in the 'Sydney Morning Herald' noted that this work was meant to invoke an Oriental dance: 'the arms close to the sides, with the hands upturned at the wrists, is from the dance of Salome'.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Dora Ohlfsen and the facade commission, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Oct 2019–08 Mar 2020
