Berries and Laurel; Frances Hodgkins; circa 1930; 1982/46/2 on NZ Museums
The fusion of still life with landscape was a distinctive theme in Frances Hodgkins' mature work, deriving from artists such as Picasso and Matisse, and first treated by Hodgkins in the late 1920s. In 1929 an invitation to exhibit with the progressive Seven and Five Society marked recognition by the British avant-garde and Berries and Laurel was first exhibited at the Society in January 1931. France Hodgkins often used a warm, sensuous, Mediterranean palette of reds, oranges and blues, but…
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Still life: self-portrait by Frances Hodgkins
Still life: self-portrait by Frances Hodgkins
Pleasure Garden (1932) by France Hodgkins: The renowned New Zealand art historian E.H. McCormick commented that: ‘The Pleasure Garden Incident was perhaps a turning point, in the struggle of New Zealand art to free itself from the bondage of timid prejudice and sterile convention. From 1951, when ‘Pleasure garden’ was finally accepted and hung, a future historian may find it convenient to date New Zealand’s emergence from colonial status in the arts.’ (Brought to Light, November 2009)
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