National Gallery Acquires Paintings By Three Remarkable Women
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Lemon and grey, by Alison Rehfisch (1933).
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Three significant works by women artists have been acquired by the National Gallery of Australia, including the beautiful painting, Lemon and grey, pictured above. Painted in 1933 by Australian artist Alison Rehfisch, its acquisition is part of a deliberate strategy to address the under-representation of women in the national collection.
The acquisition of the paintings – which also include Ethel Carrick’s Esquisse en Australie and Bessie Davidson’s Tulips with white pot – was announced this week to coincide with International Women’s Day.
On International Women’s Day last year, the National Gallery launched a Gender Equity Action Plan; this week it announced it had met its gender equity commitments over the past 12 months. According to its figures for 2022, women artists were represented in 55% of total works acquired, 64% of works in special exhibitions; and 44% of works in touring exhibitions.
, is a key work in her career that is also one of the first post-Impressionist paintings by a woman artist painted in Australia that will help us retell the stories of art in this country.</p>
<p>“Australian artist Bessie Davidson’s painting <em>Tulips with white pot</em> was created in her Parisian studio in the mid-1930s and is one of her most resolved and accomplished works. While Davidson is represented in a number of public gallery collections, like many artists who spent much of their career overseas, she is often overshadowed by artists working locally.</p>
<p>“The delicate balance of pattern, colour and tone, enforces <em>Lemon and grey</em> as one of Alison Rehfisch’s great achievements as a painter.’’</p>
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