Portrait group
1922
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 152.8 × 102.2 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- London, England
- Inscription
- inscribed in black paint l.r.: MAX MARTIN. 22
inscribed in blue ink on paper label on reverse: NAME / MAX MARTIN / ADDRESS / THE · LITTLE · STUDIO. / BIBLE ST ELTHAM. / TITLE / "PORTRAIT GROUP" / CATALOGUE No. / 1326 - Accession Number
- 1995.564
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE, Honorary Life Benefactor, 1995 - Gallery location
- Not on display
- Subjects (general)
- Portraits Relationships and Interactions
- Subjects (specific)
- artists (visual artists) children (people by age group) families (kinship groups) family portraits interior spaces (spaces by location) London (inhabited place) Martin, Max self-portraits
- Physical description
- The artist stands with his elbow on the mantelpiece, his wife is seated on the left with the daughter standing between the parents.
- Frame
- Original, designed by the artist
Frame
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The frame is made from a flat piece of timber, mitred at the corners and cross-nailed. The surface has been painted black and then given a textured pattern by carving repeated small scallops into the surface to reveal the timber. The decorative section is finished with a carved line toward the inner edge, provided a thin black line at the sight edge. It is likely these marks have been made with a small gouge on a scale similar to a lino-cutting tool. The frame is thought to have been hand finished by the artist. A painting with a small scale black frame appears on the wall in the background of the painting.
- Framemaker
- Unknown - 20th century
- Date
- c.1922
- Materials
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carved timber, paint