Painting on the Kitchen Table

1984

Not on view

According to the artist, this painting was executed in Falmouth, Cornwall in October 1984. It is one of a series of three paintings depicting self-portraits in the kitchen. Mabbutt wrote: "The basis of my work is a focusing on particular moments which occur in my personal life. These are [found] in the commonplace. Walking on the beach, brushing my daughter's hair at the kitchen table, trying on shoes. They are moments of heightened consciousness—an awareness of what it is to be living at the moment. The paintings develop through a number of small studies and researches of the information from the situation, and attempt to develop into paintings which are celebratory of real life, but have a life of their own."

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Title: Painting on the Kitchen Table
Artist: Mary Mabbutt (British, born Luton, 1951)
Date: 1984
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 36 × 36 in. (91.4 × 91.4 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Purchase, Gift of a Group of Artists, by exchange, 1987
Object Number: 1987.206
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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