Lot 22
Still Life
oil on canvas
signed lower left: F. V. Lahey
41.5 x 100cm
Estimate $5,500 - $7,500
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 25 November 1992, lot 16
Private collection, Canberra
Menzies, Melbourne, 11 December 2014, lot 181
Private collection, Melbourne
Vida Lahey exhibited extensively in Europe and Australia and is considered a major contributor to the introduction of Modernism in Australia.
Through her career, Lahey became increasingly drawn to still life and it was a theme she returned to regularly. It provided her the opportunity to explore composition, texture, form and her love of colour.
By the mid-1920s she was highly regarded amongst Australian women artists and was admired for her bold and proficient use of light and colour.
Women Artists: 1900 - 1960
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8199
2:00pm - 12 October 2017
333 Malvern Rd, South Yarra 3141
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