◧ Artist: Vida Lahey (1882-1968)
◧ Country: Autralia
◧ Title: [Fruit and Flowers]
◧ Medium: Oil painting on canvas
◧ Painting Size: 56.2 × 55.8 cm
◧ Medium: Oil painting on canvas
◧ Painting Size: 56.2 × 55.8 cm
◧ Museum: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
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◧ Country of Stamp Issue: Australia◧ Date of Issue: March 22, 2011
◧ Face Value: 60 Australian Cents
◧ Issued as a part of National Gallery of Victoria series
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Vida Lahey is one of Queensland's best loved artists, recognised as much for her work in promoting art and art education in Queensland as for her own paintings.
Lahey's early affinity with colour was inspired by European Impressionism before the vital colour of Post-Impressionism began to influence her work.
The art environment in Brisbane was particularly conservative, making Vida Lahey's vibrant flower studies highly visible expressions of modernist ideas at the Royal Queensland Art Society's annual exhibitions. Although floral still lifes were a popular genre throughout Australia at the time, Lahey's handling of brilliant colour was considered exceptional and her paintings were exhibited in southern states from the 1920s to wide acclaim. She continued to produce these delightful floral studies to the end of her career.
(from description for 2011 Vida Lahey's "Colour and Modernism" exhibition at Queensland Art Gallery)
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