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

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
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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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