Anne Marie Hall 'Sister Blackford Speaking' reproduction-print neo-expressionism with a twist of

neo-expressionism with a twist of something uncategorizable

frame is new

Beside an animal’s skull rears a man’s face – two sides of existence hung in close proximity

to fully behold the beauty and iconographic depth of this work

Anne Marie Hall 'Sister Blackford Speaking' reproduction-print neo-expressionism with a twist ofIn Sister Blackford Speaking, Anne Marie Hall sketches a nurse. The work was drawn in 1976 when Halls then husband, Australian artist John Perceval, was committed to Larundel Mental Asylum on the outskirts of Melbourne. It is likely a portrait of one of his nurses, captured with a wicked eye. Hall draws the nurses fingers like wriggling worms and her expression slightly deranged. Perceval lived at Larundel between 1974 and 1989; he and Hall divorced