The midnight sun XII
(1982)
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
198.9 × 237.4 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds provided by the National Gallery Women's Association and miscellaneous donations, 1992
© Francesco Clemente
Gallery location
Level 3, NGV International
About this work
Francesco Clemente’s drawings, paintings and prints reflect an itinerant life spent living between New York, Rome, Madras and New Mexico. In the 1970s Clemente became a key practitioner of Neo-Expressionism. Neo-Expressionist artists typically produced large-scale, gestural paintings that challenged the austerity of much 1960s–70s art, such as Minimalist, Pop and Conceptual Art. Clemente’s works are often charged with a mystical, dreamlike sensibility. The midnight sun XII is the last work in a series of the same name that Clemente made in the year he moved to New York and began creating large-scale oil paintings.
Artwork Details
Accession Number
IC4-1992
Department
Contemporary Art
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Subjects (general)
Allegory and Symbols Human Figures
Subjects (specific)
balances (scales) dog (species) men (male humans) reclining women (female humans)
Movements
Neo-Expressionism Trans-avantgarde