Still-Life with Pomegranate, Jug and Glass Etc

A lovely still life painting of a grouping of green apples in a woven brown wicker basket. A brown jug sits behind the basket, with a knife all sitting upon a table with a brown tabl...

Drawing, pencil on paper. Still Life by Beeldens, signed and dated, 1935. References: Modern and Contemporary Art, New Objectivity, Neue Sachlichkeit...

Still life painting of pomegranates, signed by R. Lasserre. Oil on board.

This small but lovely work is an excellent example of Montgomery's joyfully experimental modernism. It is a sketch in oil on composition board. A table and jug are heavily outlined. The shape of a white seashell is superimposed, with a ghostly idea of it's internal spiral and speckled surface sketched in. The table surface is covered in sgraffito curls while heavy brush strokes build texture in the background. Montgomery's painting vibrates with lively observations of colour and texture. It was purchased from the artist's own studio (the address is penciled on the back) for a single owner collection, then passed down by descent. Anne Montgomery has for many years been one of the women artists Australia forgot. Not any more. Along with the likes of Clarice Beckett...

Vintage (20th Century) still life oil painting of white and pink flowers with greenery arranged in a ceramic jug, on rectangular, unframed canvas.   

Vintage (20th Century) still life oil painting of white and pink flowers with greenery arranged in a ceramic jug, on rectangular, unframed canvas.