Contemplation
1951
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
64.2 × 77.0 cm irreg.
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1954
© Owen Carington Smith and Julie Marshall
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in blue paint l.r.: Carington Smith 51
Accession Number
3113-4
Department
Australian Painting
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Subjects (general)
Human Figures Interiors Portraits
Subjects (specific)
gaze (psychoanalytical concept) interior views rooms (interior spaces) seated figures women (female humans)
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Study for an altar
BACCHIACCA
Interior of a house
Tomas HARRIS
By the fireside
UNKNOWN
Studio interior
Michael SHANNON
The Gazette
David TENIERS II
Untitled
UNKNOWN; Edward John POYNTER (after)
Piano and pot plant (Interior)
Bradd WESTMORELAND
Study for "The Emigrant Artist"
Charles Samuel KEENE
Notes on the Fire
UNKNOWN; G. J. PINWELL (after)
The Reprimand
UNKNOWN; John Everett MILLAIS (after)
Study for The harem
John LEWIS
Church interior
Joannes BOSBOOM
The window seat
Emma Minnie BOYD
Corner of a drawing-room
Emma Minnie BOYD
Cinema nude
John HOPKINS
La Communion des Lutheriens
UNKNOWN; Caterine SPERLING (after)
The doors
Édouard VUILLARD
Evensong, Hill End
Russell DRYSDALE
Souk Hammamet
Sydney THOMPSON
The Bohemian Party
Feliks TOPOLSKI
Senhor Loureiro's studio (west end)
Arthur MONTAGUE
An Interior
Léon LHERMITTE
Friday night
Vic O'CONNOR
The Discovery
UNKNOWN
Royal portrait of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II
Brian DUNLOP
A student of the Latin Quarter
Hugh RAMSAY
Finished drawing for 'Is the Tunnel Wanted'
Charles Samuel KEENE
Winchester Cathedral
D. Y. CAMERON
Flatscreens
Steven RENDALL
Interior with woman sewing
Charles Samuel KEENE