Still Life
Copyright
© The Estate of Patrick Heron. All rights reserved, DACS 2023
Image: Courtauld
Image: Courtauld
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Maker
1920-1999
Title
Still Life
Date of Production
c. 1948-49
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 50 cm (canvas)
Width: 30 cm (canvas)
Width: 30 cm (canvas)
Object Number
P.2011.XX.2
Mode of Acquisition
Trevor Dannat, gift, 2011
Credit
Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Label Text
Patrick Heron was one of Britain’s most important abstract painters. In this early still life he explores the boundaries between abstraction and representation. Heron took as his subject an oil lamp on a table in front of a window. He rendered the objects in heavy black outlines set transparently upon the broad planes of colour that define the rest of the room. He uses line and colour so exuberantly they almost become freed from their representational function.
Provenance
Gift of the artist to Trevor Dannatt c.1955; Gift of Trevor Dannatt 2011
Exhibition History
Beyond the Real: British Still Life, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 11/05/2024-20/10/2024
20th century British Art, Courtauld Gallery Room 11, 10/12/2022-07/05/2024
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