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Two chairs on fire

Two chairs on fire
 1956

Medium
oil on composition board
Measurements
152.1 × 122.0 cm
Inscription
inscribed (diagonally) in grey paint l.r.: Jack Smith / 56
inscribed in pen and ink on paper label on reverse u.c.: JACK SMITH / TWO CHAIRS ON / FIRE / oil
Accession Number
98-5
Department
International Painting
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1959
© Jack Smith
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Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Furniture Utilitarian Objects
Subjects (specific)
chairs (furniture forms) destruction (process) fires (events) flames orange (colour) smoke (material)
Provenance
Purchased from the Beaux Arts Gallery, London (from a sum set aside for contemporary painting) on the advice of A. J. L. McDonnell, for the Felton Bequest, 1959.