Frances Hodgkins
Artwork Detail
A bust-length watercolour study of a girl wearing a shawl on white ground paper. There is minimal evidence of graphite underdrawing; details around the face, such as animated tendrils of curly dark hair, are delineated with watercolour. Effective contrasting use of diffuse washes and denser colours. Highlights are formed by touches of white paint and by an impressionistic use of broken paintwork that allows glimpses of the white paper to show through. The imposing scale and confidence of execution of this watercolour suggest it was possibly one of the studies Hodgkins exhibited at the Otago Art Society and in Canterbury in 1896 for which she asked the relatively high price of £7-7-0.
- Title
- Māori Child
- Artist/creator
- Frances Hodgkins
- Production date
- 1896
- Medium
- watercolour
- Dimensions
- 355 x 241 mm
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Jane and Malcolm Calder in memory of her grandfather James Cecil Palmer and her father, Humprey Joseph Palmer, 2022
- Accession no
- 2022/15
- Copyright
- Copyright Expired
- Department
- New Zealand Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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