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detail A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/ someone looks at something...

detail A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/ someone looks at something...
 1985

Medium
oil, gold leaf on canvas, wood frame. plastic coated wire
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1992
© Courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery
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Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
oil, gold leaf on canvas, wood frame. plastic coated wire
Measurements
79.8 × 59.7 cm (framed)
Inscription
inscribed in black fibre-tipped pen on reverse: PETER TYNDALL Peter Tyndall
stamped in black on reverse: detail / A Person Looks At A Work Of Art / someone looks at something ...
Accession Number
A9.5-1992
Department
Contemporary Art
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1992
© Courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Abstract Art Concepts and Ideas
Subjects (specific)
galleries (display spaces) geometric shape observation paintings (visual works) rectangles shape (form attribute) viewers (observers)

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Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s

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