Second meal
2022
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 125.0 × 104.2 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Melbourne, Victoria
- Inscription
- stamped in ink u.l.: PRUDENCE FLINT
inscribed in black chalk on reverse u.l.: Second Meal / 2022 - Accession Number
- 2024.21
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Bruce Parncutt AO and Celebration Donors, 2024 - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Without specific narratives but full of psychological richness, Prudence Flint’s paintings of women escape easy interpretation. Seemingly lost in thought, the figures are surrounded by everyday objects that serve as metaphors for the inner world.
Flint’s paintings take long periods to make. They begin as ideas reproduced in pencil and charcoal drawings before being painted from life in her studio, where Flint works with a close circle that has modelled for her over years.
Second meal is part of a body of work, titled Hunting and Fishing, which reflects the artist’s ongoing interest in the traditions of figurative painting and the representation of women throughout art history.
