Star of Bethlehem
Catalogue
- Year
- 1966
- Medium
- Oil paint on hardboard
- Dimensions
- support: 1841 x 2454 mm frame: 1925 x 2540 x 68 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Artist
- John Bellany
Artist
Painting
John Bellany was a British painter whose monumental figurative works addressed trauma, mortality, and collective memory in the postwar era. Working primarily in oil on canvas, he developed a gestural, expressionistic approach marked by distorted human forms and densely layered surfaces that evoked both classical tradition and raw emotional urgency. His large-scale paintings often incorporated mythological and biblical references alongside contemporary social commentary. Bellany's work engaged with the psychological and physical legacies of conflict and displacement in mid-to-late twentieth-century Europe.
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1987 · Etching from a portfolio of ten etchings and four screenprints
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1987 · Etching from a portfolio of ten etchings and four screenprints
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- John Bellany
- Year
- 1966
- Medium
- Oil paint on hardboard
- Dimensions
- support: 1841 x 2454 mm frame: 1925 x 2540 x 68 mm
- Watts ID
- WW-1966-219022
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- Collection
- Tate
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