ID: 700008387 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008387	Record Type: Movable Work
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Still Life with Frying Pan and Red Cabbage (oil painting (visual work); Louisa Matthiasdottir (Icelandic painter, 1917-2000, active ...; 1979; Tate Modern ; T07602)

Note: Still Life with Frying Pan and Red Cabbage depicts a collection of objects drawn from Louisa Matthiasdottir's immediate domestic environment. Its title is characteristically spare and descriptive. The eponymous cabbage and frying pan are placed on a table with a blue and white cloth whose surface dominates this large canvas. They sit amongst a variety of other kitchen utensils and produce, such as an orange, a coffee-pot and a butternut squash. A circular mirror behind the table partially reflects the carefully arranged objects. The lower section of the painting is criss-crossed by a busy network of disjointed diagonals and recedes from the viewer. In contrast to this, the upper section, which depicts the wall and mirror beyond the table, is flat and largely devoid of detail. Its vertical plane is continuous with that of the wall upon which the painting itself might hang. The depicted mirror therefore meets the viewer's gaze on the same plane as might a real mirror, yet it conspicuously fails to offer the viewer a reassuring image of him or herself. Its emptiness thus evokes the still-life tradition of the vanitas. The fruit and vegetables also allude to this tradition.

Titles:

Still Life with Frying Pan and Red Cabbage (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

oil painting (visual work) [300033799] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, paintings (visual works), <paintings by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1979

Creator Display:

Louisa Matthiasdottir (Icelandic painter, 1917-2000, active in the United States) [preferred,VP]

painter Matthiasdottir, Louisa (Icelandic painter, 1917-2000, active in the United States) [500097310]

Locations:

Current: Term Not Found (ULAN Candidate) (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: T07602

Credit Line: Presented by FBA - the Icelandic Investment Bank 2000

Display Materials: oil paint on canvas

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: Unconfirmed: 1320 x 1524 mm

General Subject:

still lifes (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	frying pan (cookware) [300042984]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Containers (hierarchy name), containers (receptacles), <containers by function or context>, culinary containers, <containers for cooking food>, <vessels for cooking food>, cookware) (AAT)

	cabbage [300391214]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Plantae (kingdom), Angiospermae (division), Magnoliopsida (class), Rosanae (superorder), Brassicales (order), Brassicaceae (family), Brassica (genus)) (AAT)

	Vanitas (still lifes) [300249151]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, still lifes) (AAT)

	blue (color) [300129361]
	.....(Physical Attributes Facet, Color (hierarchy name), colors (hues or tints), chromatic colors, blue colors) (AAT)

	kitchen [300004514]
	.....(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, building divisions, rooms and spaces, <rooms and spaces by function>, <work and instructional spaces>) (AAT)

Copyright: © The estate of Louisa Matthiasdottir

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Still Life with Frying Pan and Red Cabbage	........ [VP]
	........ Tate Gallery [online] (1999-) accessed 10 April 2014

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Tate Gallery [online] (1999-) accessed 10 April 2014

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Tate Gallery [online] (1999-) 25 February 2018, http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/matthiasdottir-still-life-with-frying-pan-and-red-cabbage-t07602