Item - Vin et Liqueurs Bar

ID UNSW D 2001/0872 (100017)
Artist George Bernard DUNCAN (1904 - 1974)
Title Vin et Liqueurs Bar
Alternate Titles
Category Drawing
Medium Mixed media on paper
Materials gouache, pencil, pastel and ink on paper support
Edition Number
Measurements (cms)  
  Height 20.50
  Width 51.00
  Depth 0.00
  Other Frame: 44.5 x 79 x 1.5 cms
Marks/Inscriptions  
  Location
  Signed
Produced  
  When c. 1955
  Where Australia, NSW, Sydney
Style
Subject Figures
Credit Line Presented by H. Kallinikos Pty Ltd through the Cultural Gifts Programme, 2001
Description/Remarks    Image depicts a street scene peopled with French stereotypes - a poodle, an man wearing Algerian garb, an artist in beret, a black-suited maitre'd and white aproned waiter, a matellots chatting to a red-dressed streetwalker, two women dancing togther in a bar; countrywomen picking grapes, a poster advertising the Can-Can; men using a pissoir, a framer leading oxen carrying wine barrels.
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