Bertram Mackennal
(Australia, England, France 12 Jun 1863–10 Oct 1931)
- Title
- Lyric poetry
- Other titles:
- Sappho
Allegorical bust
Lyric Muse - Year
- 1888
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- bronze bust
- Dimensions
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60.8 x 31.0 x 28.6cm
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated on back of base, incised "E. Bertram MacKennal/ 1888".
- Credit
- Purchased 1972
- Accession number
- 104.1972
- Location
- Vestibule
- Bibliography (5)
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Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Bertram Mackennal: the fifth Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project, Sydney, 2007, 19, 21 (detail, colour illus.), 22 (detail, colour illus.), 26, 110. titled 'Lyric poetry'
Bertram Mackennal: Catalogue raisonné 2007, 2007, (colour illus.). Artworks: Sculpture: 1880s
Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Stampede of the Lower Gods: Classical Mythology in Australian Art, Domain, Sep 1989, 5 (illus.), 63.
Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Australian sculpture 1890-1919, Domain, 1987, (illus.). no catalogue numbers, not paginated
Noel Hutchinson (b.1940) (Author), Early Australian sculpture, from its beginnings up to circa 1920, Ballarat, 1977. cat.no. 27
- Exhibition history (6)
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Early Australian scupture: from its beginnings up to circa 1920, City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 15 Mar 1977.
Australian sculpture 1890-1919, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 22 Jan 1987–22 Feb 1989.
Stampede of the Lower Gods: Classical Mythology in Australian Art 1890's-1930's, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 Oct 1989–26 Nov 1989.
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000.
Bertram Mackennal, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 17 Aug 2007–04 Nov 2007.
Bertram Mackennal, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, 30 Nov 2007–24 Feb 2008.
