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Patrick Heron was one of Britain’s most important abstract painters. In this early still life he explores the boundaries between abstraction and representation. Heron took as his subject an oil lamp on a table in front of a window. He rendered the objects in heavy black outlines set transparently upon the broad planes of colour that define the rest of the room. He uses line and colour so exuberantly they almost become freed from their representational function.
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
London
Title
Still Life
Date
c.1948–1949
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 50 x W 30 cm
Accession number
P.2011.XX.2
Acquisition method
gift from Trevor Dannatt, 2011
Work type
Painting