still life by Arnold Shore

'Still Life with Blue Teapot' Oil on canvas dated 1954 by Arnold Shore. Shore was born 1897 in Melbourne. After leaving school, he worked as a designer of stained glass, also attending evening drawing classes at the National Gallery School, where he was instructed by Frederick McCubbin. He joined the Victorian Artists' Society in 1917 and from 1917 he attended Max Meldrum's classes and in 1923 he joined the group: Twenty Melbourne Painters' with whom he exhibited regularly for many years. From 1924, his work increasingly showed the influence of Post-Impressionist and contemporary European artists. Shore's August 1929 one-man exhibition at the Athenaeum Gallery can reasonably be claimed to be the first modernist exhibition in Melbourne. In 1932 Shore and George Bell opened the Bell-Shore school of painting, then the only Melbourne school purporting to teach modernist principles. During the 1930s Shore's reputation grew steadily. His second one-man exhibition was staged at Sydney's Macquarie Galleries in March 1937, and over the next decade he held six more one-man exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney. By 1940 he had won several important art prizes. The self-portrait awarded the1938 Crouch prize now hangs in the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery. Shore has traditionally been seen as a pioneer modernist. His work is represented in the National Gallery of Australia and in all State and many provincial galleries. The work has been professionally cleaned and measures 58.5cm x 51.5cm

AU$3,485