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(Lady with umbrella)
(c. 1926)
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
64.8 × 39.5 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Warren Clark Bequest, 2013
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
J. W. Power is the Australian artist most closely identified with the Parisian avant-garde in the interwar years. From the mid 1920s Power maintained a studio in Montparnasse and from 1924 studied with Fernand Léger at the Académie Moderne. Power exhibited with Léonce Rosenberg’s Galerie de l’Effort Moderne, best known as a champion of the Cubists Léger, Juan Gris and Pablo Picasso. By 1930 Paris had become the centre for abstract art, and Power became a founding member of the Abstraction-Création group. In 1934 held the first one-person exhibition at their gallery.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
(Paris, France / Bournemouth, England)
Inscription
inscribed in blue paint l.r. (pentagram) (in circle)
inscribed in red chalk on reverse u.c.: (pentagram) (in circle)
Accession Number
2013.678
Department
Australian Painting
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