• Title
  Al fresco, 1927 / by Herbert Badham
• Creator
  Herbert (Herbert E.) Badham, 1899-1961
• Call number
  ML 1444
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, West Wall, no. 237
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1927
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  903498
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on plywood, framed - visible image 29 x 43.5 cm, in frame 45.8 x 60.8 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Herbert Badham (1899-1961) studied at the Sydney Art School under Julian Ashton, George Lambert and Henry Gibbons, and later taught at East Sydney Technical School. He wrote an important historical survey of Australian art which was published in 1949.
  
  Reference:
  Library correspondence file
• Scope and Content
  The painting shows a domestic scene of a small, informal group gathered around a table. Glasses, bottles, jugs, fruit in a bowl and a copy of Studio magazine litter the white tablecloth around which four people are gathered.
  
  Painted the year after Badham completed his studies at Sydney Art School and shortly after his marriage to Enid Wilson, 'Al fresco' was set in the Badham's unit 'Ard-Na-Lee' at The Crescent, Vaucluse. His wife Enid, (at far right) is joined at table (left to right) by her brother Reg, mother Julia Margaret Wilson, and sister Mrs Esme (Jo) Crockett.
  
  Al fresco was exhibited in the Society of Artists' Annual Exhibition in 1927, (no. 150)
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Approval for reproduction required:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• Description source
  
  Title and date taken from Deutscher and Hackett's Important Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 1 September 2010
  
  Sitters and location identified by Chebi Badham (artist's daughter), 15 September 2010
• General note
  
  'G. W. Lambert' inscribed in pencil on reverse of frame. Badham worked from Lambert's studio.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed lower right `HBadham’
• Subject
  Art, Australian--20th century.
  New South Wales--Social life and customs--20th century.
  Adult Males
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  interiors
  groups (people)
  household objects
  eating & drinking
  families
  picture frames
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE13195523

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