Medium
encaustic and collage of cut newspaper on canvas
Measurements
183.0 × 121.4 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1982
© Courtesy of the artist
Gallery location
Not on display
Place/s of Execution
Macedon, Victoria
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Thomas 874
Inscription
inscribed (diagonally) in black fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.c.l.: Bea. Maddock. / 1981
Accession Number
AC5-1982
Department
Australian Painting
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Subjects (general)
Emotions and Mental States Literary and Text
Subjects (specific)
black (colour) definition dictionaries letter pictures monochrome negative emotions text (layout feature) words (layout features)
Movements
Contemporary (style of art)
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