Feline design
(1930s)
- Medium
- colour linocut, with hand-colouring
- Measurements
- 36.0 × 22.5 cm (image and block)
- Inscription
- printed in ink (in image) l.l.: MM (monogram)
inscribed in ballpoint pen l.l.: Mahood – “Feline Design” - Accession Number
- 2020.498
- Departments
- Australian Prints / Australian Prints & Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Andrée Fay Harkness through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2020
© MTH Mahood - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Since the earliest recorded images of wild felines from the Neolithic era, many artists have captured the untamed natural instincts that are still perceptible in domestic cats. Although the cat in Maguerite Mahood’s Feline design is playing with a ball, its fixed stare and dominantly perched paw suggests a tiger protecting its lunch.
