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Olympia

Godfrey MILLER
Olympia
 (c. 1950)

Medium
pen and ink and oil on canvas

Measurements
41.2 × 61.6 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1967
© Estate of Godfrey Miller/John Henshaw

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Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Sydney, New South Wales

Inscription
inscribed in black paint l.r.: Godfrey Miller
overinscribed on previous inscription in grey paint l.r.: Godfrey Miller

Accession Number
A8-1994

Department
Australian Painting

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Subjects (general)
Abstract Art Sites

Subjects (specific)
geometric shape Greece (nation) lines (geometric concept) Olympia (deserted settlement) rectangles ruins trees trees

Movements
Modernism

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