Minos of the Shades
1952
Medium
oil on composition board
Measurements
60.8 × 75.8 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased 1952
© Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Gallery location
Gallery 8
Level 2, NGV Australia
About this work
Jean Bellette was born in Hobart in 1908 and is recognised for her depictions of Classical subjects. She studied at Hobart Technical School before attending the Sydney Art School (now the Julian Ashton Art School), where she was taught by Thea Proctor and met fellow artist Paul Haefliger, whom she married in 1935. The couple travelled to London the following year, where Bellette studied at the Westminster Art School. Classical figures in a landscape was completed following significant critical recognition in the early 1940s, when Bellette was awarded the Sir John Sulman Prize for genre painting in 1942 and again in 1944.
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in red paint l.r.: J Bellette 52
inscribed in charcoal on reverse: MINOS of the SHADES 50GNS / Jean Bellette
Accession Number
2977-4
Department
Australian Painting
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Subjects (general)
Human Figures Relationships and Interactions Religion and Mythology
Subjects (specific)
classicism Minos (Greek character) monochrome nudes (representations) souls underworld (doctrinal concept)
Movements
Modernism