(Horses at Dusk)
Constance Stokes
Details
- Artist
- Constance Stokes
- Title
- (Horses at Dusk)
- Medium
- oil on composition board
- Size
- 52 x 71 cm
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Provenance
the Estate of the artist
Exhibited
Constance Stokes 1906 - 1991, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 30 November 2021 - 18 March 2022
Literature
Wyborn d'Abrera, Lucilla, Constance Stokes Art & Life, Hill House, Melbourne, 2015, illus p128 as Horses
Further Information
This graceful group of horses was painted by Constance Stokes drawing attention to her beautiful use of line, bold use of colour and rhythmic compositions.
Constance Stokes was a talented, ambitious artist who furthered her artistic studies in Europe and was celebrated as a successful artist in her time. Stokes studied at the Gallery School at the National Gallery of Victoria under Bernard Hall, where her natural talent shone and she was awarded the Travelling Scholarship in 1929 which enabled her to continue her studies at the Royal Academy in London and in Paris in the summer of 1931 with Andre Lhote who was to have a profound influence on her.
As she recalled, ‘the Lhôte School was a revelation to me and, as I did not have much French, and Lhôte had no English, I had to do the best I could by watching him work with his brush - drawing all the colour together, and for the first time I became aware of colour used as tone, and not used as local colour’.1
She was included in the Twelve Australian Artists exhibition at Burlington Galleries, London in 1953 and represented at the 1953 Venice Biennale. Her work was admired by Kenneth Clark who, in 1949 considered Stokes to be “one of the finest draughtsmen in the world today.” She attended George Bell’s drawing classes, not as a student but as an opportunity to draw from the model.