Anne Hall was part of the Heide circle, of which Charles Blackman, Sidney Nolan and Hall’s husband, John Perceval were also members. Like them, she pursued a Figurative Expressionist style, smudging objective and subjective truths. In a way unique to her however, Hall cuts to the nucleus of her subject, laying bare their soul.

In ‘Untitled (Fluid Portrait)’, Hall paints a woman. There is nothing particularly realistic about her; rather, she recalls an amoeba examined beneath a microscope - a cellular mass migrating between states. Distended and elongated, this woman is at once estranged and transcendent, slipping (or perhaps escaping) into another dimension.

Hall takes from modernism, expressionism and surrealism to convey the strangeness of existence. Like Joy Hester and Mirka Mora, Hall forged a compelling female voice in an otherwise male dominated space. That her career was at times overshadowed by her marriage is a testament to Modernism’s issues with gender parity. Now, collected by The National Gallery of Australia, the Ian Potter Museum and Geelong Gallery, her absence is being redressed.

For collectors of Modernist Australian art and those searching for a unique insight into the Antipodean movement, Hall is a vital find.
 

Anne Marie HALL (1945 - )
'Untitled (Fluid Portrait)' 1966
oil on paper
Image Size: 55 x 74 cm
Dimensions: 107 x 82 x 5 cm
Signed: Anne Hall and dated 66
Comes with Letter of Provenance
Availability: in stock
Condition:Very good
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