Nora Heysen
(Australia 11 Jan 1911–30 Dec 2003)
- Title
- Self portrait with smock
- Other titles:
- Self portrait in a smock
- Year
- (1928)
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pencil
- Dimensions
-
38.4 x 29.2cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1990
- Accession number
- 140.1990
- Copyright
- © Lou Klepac
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
As a young woman, Nora Heysen produced a number of self portraits in her father's studio, of which the Gallery has two drawings and an oil painting dated 1932. Heysen's self portraits are marked with qualities of introspection and restraint, which nevertheless project an assured and assertive confidence of personality.
Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2000
- Bibliography (2)
-
‘Heysen to Heysen: letters across a generation’ by Hendrik Kolenberg, pg. 33-36., Look Mar 2012, Mar 2012, 33 (colour illus.).
Hendrik Kolenberg (Netherlands; Australia) (Author), Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Domain, 1997, 49 (illus.). cat.no. 38
- Exhibition history (1)
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Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 13 Dec 1997–15 Mar 1998.
