{"product_id":"hall-anne-marie-sister-blackford-spe-15288","title":"Anne Marie Hall 'Sister Blackford Speaking'","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn ‘\u003cem\u003eSister Blackford Speaking\u003c\/em\u003e’, Anne Marie Hall sketches a nurse. The work was drawn in 1976 when Hall’s then husband, Australian artist John Perceval, was committed to Larundel Mental Asylum on the outskirts of Melbourne. It is likely a portrait of one of his nurses, captured with a wicked eye. Hall draws the nurse’s fingers like wriggling worms and her expression slightly deranged. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerceval lived at Larundel between 1974 and 1989; he and Hall divorced in 1981. While it closed in 1999, the asylum's building still stands, covered in graffiti, abandoned and rumoured to be haunted. The popular imagining of asylums does not always give care to their reality, turning what were oppressive institutions into gothic spectacles. For Hall, however, Larundel was a lived reality for better and worse. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike Joy Hester and Mirka Mora, Hall forged a compelling female voice in an otherwise male dominated field. Now, collected by The National Gallery of Australia, the Ian Potter Museum and Geelong Gallery, her absence in the canon of Australian art is being redressed. For collectors of modern art, female artists or those interested in Melbourne’s history, ‘\u003cem\u003eSister Blackford Speaking\u003c\/em\u003e’ will intrigue. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/artandcollectors.com\/collections\/anne-marie-hall\"\u003eAnne Marie HALL\u003c\/a\u003e (1945 - )\u003cbr\u003e'Sister Blackford Speaking' 1976\u003cbr\u003eInk on paper\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eImage Size\u003c\/i\u003e: 32 x 19 cm \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDimensions\u003c\/i\u003e: 32 x 19 cm \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSigned\u003c\/i\u003e: Signed and dated lower image; titled top image. \u003cbr\u003eComes with Letter of Provenance\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: \u003cstrong\u003eVery Good:\u003c\/strong\u003e Describes a work of art's image as Excellent, but may show some small signs of surrounding wear to paper or frame. There are no tears to paper margin or disruption to the paint surface.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e(c) The Artist or Assignee\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0499\/8229\/products\/hall-anne-marie-sister-blackford-spe-15288-detail.jpg?v=1705541315\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0499\/8229\/products\/hall-anne-marie-sister-blackford-spe-15288-signed.jpg?v=1705541315\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art \u0026 Collectors","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48677161631993,"sku":null,"price":221.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0820\/3173\/9129\/files\/hall-anne-marie-sister-blackford-spe-15288.jpg?v=1784341735","url":"https:\/\/lecomense.com\/products\/hall-anne-marie-sister-blackford-spe-15288","provider":"Lecomense","version":"1.0","type":"link"}