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The artist was born in North Wales and trained in Wrexham, London and Glasgow. Against an alternating pattern of strips of solid colour, Roberts sets sinister objects - such as mortuary tables with shrouded corpses. These are painted with some agitation and manipulation in oil paint - which at a distance has a powerful naturalism against the softly pulsating background acrylic colour. When questioned in 1995 the artist said that Velaszquez was the artist living or dead with whom she would most like to have a conversation.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 3995
Creation/Production
ROBERTS, Julie
Date: 20th century - (second half)
Acquisition
Gift
Given by the Contemporary Art Society
Measurements
Height
(in): 60
Width
(in): 60
Height
(cm): 152.5
Width
(in): 152.5
Techniques
acrylic on canvas
Techniques (fine art)
art dept - fine
Fine Art - painting
Material
acrylic
Location
In store
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