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Dame kindness

Dame kindness
 1988

Medium
oil and enamel on canvas
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through the NGV Foundation by an anonymous donor, 2003
© Sally Smart/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
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Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
oil and enamel on canvas
Measurements
167.2 × 122.0 cm
Inscription
inscribed in black crayon on reverse u.r.: X-RAY VANITAS: / DAME KINDNESS / OIL AND SPRAY ENAMEL / ON LINEN (LINEN written over CANVAS, smudged out) 1988 / MELB / VIC / 167x122(cm) / (upward arrow)
inscribed in black crayon on reverse c.r.: S Smart / SALLY SMART © 1988
Accession Number
2003.304
Department
Contemporary Art
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through the NGV Foundation by an anonymous donor, 2003
© Sally Smart/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Nature
Subjects (specific)
chairs (furniture forms) costume (mode of fashion) earrings (jewellery) hats necklaces skulls (skeleton components) trees

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Essay
Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s

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