Italy
1988
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
76.5 × 91.2 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Joseph Brown Collection. Presented through the NGV Foundation by Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE, Honorary Life Benefactor, 2004
© Rosslynd Piggott
Gallery location
Gallery 20
Level 3, NGV Australia
About this work
Between 1987 and 1988, Rosslynd Piggott spent four months in Italy, describing the experience as ‘complex, dense and still unfolding’. This painting was made during her residency at Il Paretaio, a Tuscan farmhouse established by Arthur Boyd that became a site for Australia Council studio residencies. It reflects her intimate response to the landscape: ‘I felt as though I were living inside a Renaissance painting. Perhaps those hills over there had not changed since 1450? Everywhere was evidence that this was a full, round place that people had lived in and built over generations and generations without much contradiction or change’.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria
Inscription
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.c.: "ITALY" / Rosslynd Piggott 1988
Accession Number
2004.207
Department
Contemporary Art
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
Subjects (general)
Abstract Art Landscapes
Subjects (specific)
clouds colours (hues or tints) flowers (plant components) hills layers (components) sky tone (colour effect) trees