Il miracolo
1957-1958
Medium
oil on (composition board)
Measurements
(159.6 × 127.0 cm)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of Coles Myer Ltd, Governor, 1991
© Yvonne Audette/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
When Yvonne Audette travelled to New York in 1953, she became involved in the Abstract Expressionism movement and met artists such as Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning. Unlike the spontaneous marks of her action-painting contemporaries, Audette advanced a more nuanced approach to abstraction, allowing compositions to develop intuitively over months, or even years, as she added, subtracted and combined forms. Il Miracolo belongs to the second phase of her abstraction in which she used a knife to scrape paint back and forth upon the surface, allowing hazy forms in the layers below to take shape.
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in black paint l.r.: Audette 58
Accession Number
A24-1991
Department
Australian Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
Subjects (general)
Abstract Art
Subjects (specific)
brush strokes geometric shape linear forms painterliness
Movements
Abstract (general art genre)