The snake is dead
1981
- Medium
- oil on canvas, Meranti (Shorea sp.)
- Measurements
- (184.4 × 102.8 cm) 208.0 × 126.4 cm (framed)
- Inscription
- inscribed in brown paint l.r.: Bezor / 1981
- Accession Number
- DC21-1981
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Michell Endowment, 1981
© Annette Bezor - Gallery location
- Not on display
- Frame
- Original, by Alan Neech, designed by the artist
Frame
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Annette Bezor’s painting, The snake is dead, 1981, (acquired in that year) has a frame carved in meranti by the artist’s friend Alan Neech to a design by Bezor.
The carving takes the form of a snake threaded in and out of the flat panel of the frame.
The frame is used as an adjunct to the image – in part referencing trophy frames as a framing form. - Framemaker
- Alan Neech
- Date
- 1981
- Materials
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carved timber (meranti)