Lover's walk in the corn, summer, England
1964
Medium
oil and toy mouse on canvas
Measurements
76.5 × 91.4 cm
Place/s of Execution
Highgate, London, England
Inscription
inscribed in black paint l.r.: Perceval / '64
Accession Number
1997.151
Department
Australian Painting
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Presented through The Art Foundation of Victoria by Fingal Pastoral Property Limited, Fellow, 1997 © Courtesy of the artist's estate
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)
Landscapes Nature
Subjects (specific)
brush strokes complexity (artistic concept) cornstalk fields (land) flower (plant material) impasto mouse (animal) United Kingdom (nation)
Movements
Angry Penguins Antipodeans
Physical description
Shows a golden cornfield surrounded by flowers, the most prominent being white dahlias. Once again the paint is applied with great vigour and dribbled and scratched onto the surface. A toy mouse is afixed to the lower right hand corner of the composition.