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summer exhibition

Art Galleries / STILL LIFE (1982)

There are 15 paintings in the Still Life collection. None has been exhibited previously. Ten are carpet paintings, reflecting the tradition of hanging oriental carpets on the wall.

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Orange and green apples
on an oriental carpet
123 x 102 cm
Proteas in a mirror vase and
in a jug on a glass table"
4' x 5' (sold) sold
A vase of lilies and a vase of nasturia on kilim
222 x 154 cm
Two pumpkins on kilim
123 x 101 cm
 
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Vase of lilies on kilim
94 x 104 cm
Fruit (orange, satsuma, grapefruit, lemon, lime,
green and red apple) on kilim
66 x 87 cm
Vase of yellow lillies on kilim
115 x 111 cm
Two jugs of proteas
on oriental carpet
3' x 4' (sold) sold
 
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Vase of lilies mirrored in dark interior
75 x 101 cm

Vase of lilies mirrored in dark interior
102 x 121 cm

Lemons and onions in front of mirror
(sold), 3' x 4' sold
 
 
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Oranges on oriental carpet
lower left side, 103 x 123 cm
Apples on carpet
upper right side
103 x 123 cm
Pineapple on carpet
upper left side
103 x 123 cm
Bananas on carpet
lower right side
103 x 123 cm
 

These carpet paintings are a radical development of Matisse's use of a blue tablecloth, a Toile de Jouy, to flatten pictorial space--here by the further imposition of geometrical/abstract patterns, so that the subject matter is absorbed into the carpets.

Throughout the still lifes, a mirror is often used to further complicate pictorial space.

These paintings range from 3’ x 4’ to 5’ x 6’. The last four in the series are meant to read as one painting - one carpet, one in which the edges will never meet.

 
 
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