No title
(1963)
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
183.2 × 152.8 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of Dr Henry Krongold CBE and Mrs Dinah Krongold, Founder Benefactors, 1993
© The Estate of Eva Hesse. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth
Gallery location
Contemporary Art gallery
Level 3, NGV International
About this work
With an artistic career spanning a decade, Eva Hesse made a significant contribution to contemporary art. She painted, created drawings and collages, produced sculptural installations and became renowned for sculptures made from fibreglass, polyester resin and latex – materials that she knew would eventually fall apart. Her style was considered too sensual to be categorised as Minimalist, however she is often affiliated with Process Art, a term developed in the 1960s that implies a focus on the physical properties of materials and the way they are applied. After her death from a brain tumour in May 1970 Hesse’s work was featured on the cover of the influential magazine Artforum.
Artwork Details
Accession Number
IC1-1993
Department
International Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Dame Carol Colburn-Grigor CBE through Metal Manufactures Limited
Subjects (general)
Nonrepresentational Art
Subjects (specific)
brush strokes circles (plane figures) colours (hues or tints) triangles (polygons)