On a Chelsea balcony
1912
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 91.5 × 78.5 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- London, England
- Accession Number
- 2020.578
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Andrée Fay Harkness through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2020
© Lt Col Simon R Hearder on behalf of the heirs in copyright - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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In the first decades of the twentieth century, Dora Meeson and her husband, artist George Coates, were part of the Australian expatriate artist community that lived and worked in London’s bohemian district of Chelsea. Their neighbours included George Lambert, Thea Proctor, Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton. While Coates worked in a dimly lit studio to achieve his preferred low tones, Meeson was drawn to working en plein air to best express light and colour. This work, which Meeson brought from London to Melbourne to exhibit at the Athenaeum’s Art Gallery in 1913, shows her skilful use of light and a bold colour palette.