Important Australian Art for Private Sale - Nora Heysen
NORA HEYSEN
Smith & Singer are delighted to offer Nora Heysen's Freesias 1985 for Private Sale.
Daughter of renowned landscape painter Hans Heysen, Nora Heysen established her own reputation as a distinguished portrait and still-life painter, becoming the first woman to win the Archibald Prize and to be appointed an Australian Official War Artist during the Second World War.
Born at Hahndorf, South Australia, the fourth child of Hans and Selma Heysen, Nora received her earliest art training from her father. At fifteen she commenced studies at the School of Fine Arts, Adelaide, under F. Millward Grey, where she received a traditional academic training, learning to draw from plaster casts and live models. By the age of twenty, Heysen’s paintings had been purchased by the state galleries of New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia.
Freesias is a major composition in Heysen’s career, brimming with shimmering light amidst a joyous profusion of delicate brushwork and refined colour. The work features in numerous publications on the artist and was included in the artist’s retrospective exhibitions held at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, in 2000-2001 and most recently in the travelling exhibition Nora Heysen: Light and Life held in 2009-2010.
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NORA HEYSEN 1911-2003
Freesias 1985
oil on canvas
50 x 61 cm
For private sale
© Lou Klepac
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Geoffrey SmithChairman Australian & International ArtMelbourne | Sydney T: +61 (0)3 9508 9900 T: +61 (0)2 9302 2402 E: Geoffrey Smith |
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Gary SingerChief Executive Officer & Director Australian & International ArtMelbourne | Sydney T: +61 (0)3 9508 9900 T: +61 (0)2 9302 2402 E: Gary Singer |
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Emily WalkerAdministrator Australian & International ArtMelbourne T: +61 (0)3 9508 9900 E: Emily Walker |
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