Frances Hodgkins
Pastorale
Artwork Detail
Hodgkins was familiar with the ideas behind Surrealism and Cubism from her many visits to France. While Cubism in its various forms experimented with the depiction of forms in space, Surrealism focused in part on a search for a language that gives form to an inner life that can only be evoked, never described. Hodgkins creates similar effects in Pastorale -the buildings loom above a stream, which also seems to rise upright, in an organic form.
- Title
- Pastorale
- Artist/creator
- Production date
- circa 1929-circa 1930
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 960 x 835 x 85 mm
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1982
- Accession no
- 1982/46/4
- Other ID
- FH0907 Frances Hodgkins Catalogue Raisonné Number, FH1930_044 Old Frances Hodgkins Number, 30:44 RW Number
- Copyright
- No known copyright restrictions
- Department
- New Zealand Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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