White heliotrope
Primary Artist
Barbara Hanrahan (1939–1991)
Title
Date made
1975
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
etching, printed in colour, from three plates
Matrix size
26.6 x 36.0 cm (printed image (overall))
Support
cream wove paper
State
published state
Impression
artist's proof
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
Signed and dated lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Barbara Hanrahan 1975'. Inscribed lower left below plate-mark in black pencil, 'A/P'. Inscribed lower centre below plate-mark in black pencil, 'White Heliotrope'.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
148001
Accession number
92.296
Accession method
Gift
Meeting
Meeting 6, 1991/92 (1992-04-30)
Provenance
Gift to the Australian National Gallery, from Jo Steele, the artist's partner, 1992.
Credit line
Gift of Jo Steele 1992
Country of context
Australia
Notes
Image 2 is a verse, "White Heliotrope", by Arthur Symons, u.c. to l.r., "white Heliotrope/The feverish room and that/white bed,/ The tumbled skirts upon a chair,/ The novel flung half-open where/ Hat, hair-pins, puffs, and paints/ are spread;/ The mirror that has sucked/ your face/ Into its secret deep of deeps,/ And there mysteriously keeps/ Forgotten memories of grace;/ And you, half-dressed and half/ awake,/ Your slant eyes strangely watch-/ing me/ And I, who watch you drowsily,/ With eyes that, having slept/ not, ache; / This (need one dread? nay,/ dare one hope?)/ I will rise, a ghost of memory, if/ Ever again my handkerchief/ Is scented with White Heliotrope./ Arthur Symond"
Creators
HANRAHAN, Barbara | (1939–1991) Australian | Female | artist
Last Updated
07 Jan 2013