Star garden
1973
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
182.6 × 198.2 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through the Art Foundation of Victoria from the Bequest of Violet Dulieu, Founder Benefactor, 1997
© Courtesy of the artist
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in black paint l.c.l.: DL. [stylised monogram] 73.
inscribed in black fibre-tipped pen on reverse:
DONALD LAYCOCK 'STAR GARDEN' 1973
Accession Number
1997.181
Department
Australian Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
Subjects (general)
Abstract Art Nonrepresentational Art
Subjects (specific)
bright (colour attribute) brush strokes cosmos gardens (open spaces) movement (compositional concept) multi-coloured stars (extraterrestrial bodies) texture (artistic concept)
Physical description
One of Laycock's lyrical abstracts, the bursts of colour and dynamic lines carry out one of the artist's themes drawn from depicting the cosmos - in this case, the night as a garden of stars.