Feline design
(1930s)
Medium
colour linocut, with hand-colouring
Measurements
36.0 × 22.5 cm (image and block)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Andrée Fay Harkness through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2020
© MTH Mahood
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Since the earliest recorded images of wild felines from the Neolithic era, many artists have captured the untamed natural instincts that are still perceptible in domestic cats. Although the cat in Maguerite Mahood’s Feline design is playing with a ball, its fixed stare and dominantly perched paw suggests a tiger protecting its lunch.
Artwork Details
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: MM (monogram)
inscribed in ballpoint pen l.l.: Mahood – “Feline Design”
Accession Number
2020.498
Departments
Australian Prints / Australian Prints & Drawings