Metropolis 6
1984
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 182.8 × 152.3 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Melbourne, Victoria
- Inscription
- inscribed in black paint on reverse u.l.: R Jacks (underlined)
inscribed in black paint on reverse u.l.: Metropolis 6 / (revisited) (crossed out) / 1984 / OIL ONLY - Accession Number
- 2015.83
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation, 2015
© Julienne Jacks - Gallery location
- Gallery 11
Level 2, NGV Australia - About this work
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Robert Jacks was one of Australia’s most significant abstract artists. His first solo exhibition in 1966 at Gallery A in Melbourne was a sell-out success. In a review of the exhibition, influential art critic Patrick McCaughey described Jacks as a distinctly new voice who signaled the arrival of the 1960s in Melbourne. Jacks left Australia for Toronto in 1968 and a year later moved to New York, where he lived for the next nine years. Jacks’s confidence as an artist grew throughout the 1980s, a decade in which the art market experienced a significant and sustained boom. He responded with a sequential series of major paintings, including his Metropolis series.
- Subjects (general)
- Nonrepresentational Art
- Subjects (specific)
- angular (shape) diagonal grey (colour) monochrome shape (form attribute) triangles (polygons)
