Collection
Max Meldrum
(Scotland, Australia 03 Dec 1875–06 Jun 1955)
- Title
- The lane, Pacé
- Other titles:
- The farm
- Year
- (1908)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
-
73.4 x 92.0cm
- Credit
- Purchased 1952
- Accession number
- 8615
- Location
- 19th c Australian art
- Further information
Arriving with his family in Melbourne at the age of 14, Max Meldrum studied under Frederick McCubbin and Bernard Hall at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School and was awarded the travelling scholarship in 1899, departing for Europe the following year.
Meldrum made France his home, during which time he studied the Old Masters and exhibited with the Paris Salon. The influence of Velásquez and Rembrandt was strong, evident in the tonal quality of the work he produced there, including The lane, Pacé. After Meldrum returned to Australia, his influential theory of painting as pure science – with tone being the most important component – attracted a dedicated following, and he applied his theory equally to still-life and landscape compositions.
- Bibliography (6)
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Robert Haines, Paintings and drawings by Max Meldrum 1974, foreward, Sydney, 1974. cat.no. 1
Hal Missingham, A retrospective exhibition of Australian painting 1953, Domain, 1953. cat.no. 90; titled 'The Farm'
Peter Perry and John Perry, Max Meldrum and associates: their art, lives and influences, 'Paris and Pacé', pg. 19-24, Victoria, 1996, 44 (colour illus.), 129. titled 'La Ferme (The Farm) (The Lane, Pacé)'; dated 1908
Ursula Prunster, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Home and abroad', pg. 73-74, Domain, 2000, 102 (colour illus.), 301.
Daniel Thomas, Art and Australia [vol. 10, no. 1] Jul 1972, 'Australian collection', pg. 52-62, Sydney, Jul 1972, 55 (colour illus.).
Editor Unknown (Editor), Art Gallery of New South Wales picturebook, Domain, 1972, 91 (colour illus.).
- Exhibition history (2)
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A retrospective exhibition of Australian painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Sep 1953–25 Oct 1953
Paintings and drawings by Max Meldrum, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, Sydney, 15 May 1974–01 Jun 1974
