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Night Bird

Night Bird

Artist: Lillian Neilson

Catalogue: 104

Material: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: 96.8x 121.9cm

Date: Acquired 1964

About the artwork

Loosely painted scene, with a paraffin lamp, a knife and an applein the foreground. On the dark horizon, an angular black bird is painted against an exterior scene at night.

About the artist

Lillian Neilson (born Kirkcaldy, 1938 1998) studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art.