Star garden
1973
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 182.6 × 198.2 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in black paint l.c.l.: DL. [stylised monogram] 73.
inscribed in black fibre-tipped pen on reverse:
DONALD LAYCOCK 'STAR GARDEN' 1973 - Accession Number
- 1997.181
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through the Art Foundation of Victoria from the Bequest of Violet Dulieu, Founder Benefactor, 1997
© Courtesy of the artist
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Not on display
- Subjects (general)
- Abstract Art Nonrepresentational Art
- Subjects (specific)
- bright (colour attribute) brush strokes cosmos gardens (open spaces) movement (compositional concept) multi-coloured stars (extraterrestrial bodies) texture (artistic concept)
- Physical description
- One of Laycock's lyrical abstracts, the bursts of colour and dynamic lines carry out one of the artist's themes drawn from depicting the cosmos - in this case, the night as a garden of stars.
