Girl with goats
1928
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
54.4 × 73.4 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by the National Gallery Society of Victoria, 1967
© The Artist
Gallery location
Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
Grace Crowley was one of the first Australian artists to respond to Cubism. In Paris in the late 1920s, she studied alongside Dorrit Black and Anne Dangar under French Cubist artists André Lhote and Albert Gleizes. In 1928 Crowley travelled to Lhote’s summer school in the South of France, held in the small medieval village of Mirmande in the Drôme valley. The composition of Girl with goats is based upon the proportions of the golden mean and shows the geometric simplification of form that was taught by Lhote. Crowley returned to Australia in 1930 and became a leader of the modernist movement in Sydney.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Mirmande, France
Inscription
inscribed in brown paint l.r.: GRACE CROWLEY -/28
Accession Number
1759-5
Department
Australian Painting
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Subjects (general)
Animals Human Figures
Subjects (specific)
dresses (garments) goat (genus) seated figures women (female humans)
Movements
Cubism
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