Lyndra by the Pool
Artist: Derwent Lees (Australian, 1884–1931)
Date: 1914
Medium: Oil on panel
Collection: Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom
Description
Full length impressionistic portrait of Lyndra Lees, wife of the artist, against an idealised landscape setting. She is shown seated on the banks of a small pool, surrounded by grasses and reeds, dipping one foot gently into the water. Behind her the ground rises steeply up to a dark hillside, silhouetted against the pale sky. The landscape is comprised of a patchwork of flat coloured planes, such as yellow, green and salmon pink. Daubs of paint in the hills and sky represent tonal variation in the landscape.
















