Marjorie Bolton Harvey, trained at the National Gallery Art School in the 1930s. This painting exemplifies Harvey’s subtle mastery of light, texture, and composition, capturing a private moment with elegance and restraint. The painting presents a woman in a quiet, personal ritual, the simple bowl and interior setting evoking both domestic intimacy and timeless ritual.

Executed with confident brushwork and a unexpected tonal palette, Harvey’s work balances realism with a lyrical sensibility, rendering the scene with both clarity and poetic suggestion. The careful attention to form and atmosphere.

This superb painting demonstrates Harvey’s enduring ability to transform ordinary life into art of lasting resonance. Her work was celebrated in a posthumous retrospective at the Victorian Artists Society Galleries in 2007, highlighting her technical mastery and her remarkable sensitivity to intimate, everyday moments. This figure study is a distinguished example of her oeuvre, offering collectors a glimpse into the contemplative side of Australian modernism.

Marjorie Bolton HARVEY (1914 - 2006)
'Women with a Bowl'
oil on canvas on board
Image Size: 43 x 35 cm
Dimensions: 61 x 51 x 5 cm
Signed: inscribed verso with artist's name and title (sic)

Comes with Letter of Provenance

Condition: Excellent

(c) The Artist or Assignee