Still Life

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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)

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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