Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Hepworth - Henri - Davila - Meldrum

Barbara Hepworth
Two Heads
1970
marble
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock

Barbara Hepworth
Figure (Oread)
1958
bronze
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Barbara Hepworth
Eidos
1947
stone (partly painted)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Barbara Hepworth
Orpheus
1956
brass and string construction mounted on wood
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

Florence Henri
Street Scene with Woman
1931
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Florence Henri
Woman with Three Bracelets
1929
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Florence Henri
Still Life
ca. 1931
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Florence Henri
Self Portrait
1928
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Juan Davila
Interior with Built-in Bar
1992
screenprint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Juan Davila
My Dress Hangs There
1987
oil on canvas
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia

Juan Davila
Retable
1989
oil paint, wood and collage on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Juan Davila
Lichtenstein
1984
screenprint
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia

Max Meldrum
Rehearsal
1944
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Max Meldrum
Reverie (Portrait of Elsa Thomson)
ca. 1940
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Max Meldrum
Edna (Mrs Oscar Mendelsohn)
1942
oil on board
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Max Meldrum
My Lady's Table
ca. 1927
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

from The Quest

Poet, oracle, and wit
Like unsuccessful anglers by
The ponds of apperception sit,
Baiting with the wrong request
The vectors of their interest,
At nightfall tell the angler's lie.

With time in tempest everywhere,
To rafts of frail assumption cling
The saintly and the insincere,
Enraged phenomena bear down
In overwhelming waves to drown
Both sufferer and suffering.

The waters long to hear our question put
Which would release their longed-for answer, but.

– W.H. Auden (1940)