52 Portraits

52 Portraits
 2013

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
synthetic polymer paint, metallic paint and screenprint on silver metallic foil on canvas
Measurements
(a) 70.4 × 55.1 cm
(b) 70.3 × 55.1 cm
(c) 70.4 × 55.2 cm
(d) 70.0 × 55.3 cm
(e) 40.3 × 55.1 cm
(f) 70.4 × 55.2 cm
(g) 70.5 × 55.2 cm
(h) 70.5 × 55.2 cm
(i) 70.2 × 55.1 cm
(j) 70.2 × 55.2 cm
(k) 70.4 × 55.0 cm
(l) 70.2 × 55.1 cm
(m) 70.0 × 55.2 cm
(n) 70.4 × 55.0 cm
(o) 70.2 × 55.2 cm
(p) 70.3 × 55.1 cm
(q) 70.2 × 55.1 cm
(r) 70.3 × 55.2 cm
(s) 70.3 × 55.0 cm
(t) 70.2 × 55.2 cm
(u) 70.2 × 55.2 cm
(v) 70.3 × 55.1 cm
(w) 70.3 × 55.0 cm
(x) 70.3 × 55.2 cm
(y) 70.4 × 55.1 cm
(z) 70.2 × 55.1 cm
(aa) 70.3 × 55.2 cm
(bb) 70.0 × 55.2 cm
(cc) 70.3 × 55.3 cm
(dd) 70.1 × 55.2 cm
(ee) 70.0 × 55.1 cm
(ff) 70.3 × 55.2 cm
(gg) 70.3 × 55.2 cm
(hh) 70.5 × 55.2 cm
(ii) 70.0 × 55.1 cm
(jj) 70.3 × 55.1 cm
(kk) 70.3 × 55.0 cm
(ll) 70.0 × 55.2 cm
(mm) 70.4 × 55.2 cm
(nn) 70.4 × 55.1 cm
(oo) 70.4 × 55.2 cm
(pp) 70.3 × 55.0 cm
(qq) 70.3 × 55.1 cm
(rr) 70.2 × 55.1 cm
(ss) 70.0 × 55.0 cm
(tt) 70.4 × 55.1 cm
(uu) 70.4 × 55.1 cm
(vv) 70.3 × 55.0 cm
(ww) 70.2 × 55.0 cm
(xx) 70.4 × 55.1 cm
(yy) 70.4 × 55.1 cm
(zz) 70.2 × 55.0 cm
Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria
Edition
artist's proof
Inscription
(w) inscribed (vertically) in fibre-tipped pen on right side c.: ‘Portrait 23’ BAndrew 2013
Accession Number
2017.57.a-zz
Department
Contemporary Art
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of the artist through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2017
© Brook Andrew/Copyright Agency, 2023
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Portraits Relationships and Interactions
Subjects (specific)
anthropology appropriation (imagery) Australian Aboriginal (culture and style) indigenous people postcolonialism racial discrimination
Movements
Contemporary (style of art)

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