Lot 55

The works are in very good condition with no apparent issues to report. Overall size: 44 x 44 x 7cm (each)


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Farm Paintings, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, 1999

Related work:

Shirley 2015, oil on canvas, collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London

Courtesy of Lucy Culliton


"Lucy is one of those painters whose paintings relate closely to each other, as well as to her own history and way of being now. Between life and canvas there's a constant, evolving exchange. For example, she has pet sheep, and recently she's painted dozens of head-and-shoulders portraits of them, up close. That's life; but from a painterly perspective, the sheep portraits developed out of her paintings of inanimate objects: knitted covered coat hangers and woollen dolls' dresses and babies' layettes. Having risen to the challenge of representing knitted wool, she went back to the source, painting the different fleeces of her flock, some arranged in greasy swathes, some in corkscrews." National Portrait Gallery, London