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Inez Marie Abbott (1886–1957)[1][2][Notes 1] was an Australian water colour artist.[3] She was one of the early Australian modernists who lived and worked in Europe in the 1920s and 30s, studied at the Academie Delecluse and exhibited in the Paris Salon. In the 1940s she was a finalist in the Art Gallery of New South Wales Wynne and Archibald prizes.[4][5]

Inez Abbott in white smock with family, taken in 1895. In the collection of the Bendigo Historical Society.

Personal life

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Inez Abbott came from a prominent Bendigo family. Her parents were Richard Hartley Smith Abbott and Mary Hannah Abbott.[6][7] Richard Abbott was a Senator, businessman and president of the Bendigo Art Gallery, establishing the RHS Bequest fund.[8][9][10]

Art career

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Abbott studied at Girton Grammar School and later at the Bendigo School of Mines.[5] She exhibited in the inaugural Bendigo Arts Society exhibition in 1920. She travelled to Europe in 1922, studying at the Academie Delecluse under Gaussen in Paris and later with Virgilio Constantini.[11][5] She returned to Bendigo in the late 1920s but was back in London by 1932. She exhibited in the Paris Salon as early as 1928 and was favourably reviewed.[11] Other Australian artists who exhibited at the Paris Salons around that period were Rupert Bunny, Agnes Goodsir, Hilda Rix-Nicholas, Max Meldrum and Ethel Carrick Fox. She also exhibited at the Galerie Charpentier.[5][12] In 1938 one of her paintings of gum trees and wattle was purchased for the Jeu de Paume Museum, now in the Centre Pompidou.[7][13][Notes 2]

She returned to Bendigo in 1938 and her work was exhibited in the Felton Centenary exhibition at the Fine Art Society in Melbourne in 1939[14] and at Sedon Galleries in Melbourne in 1939.[7] Between 1940 and 1944 she was a finalist in the Wynne and Archibald Prizes exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.[5]

Inez Abbott died in Bendigo in 1957.[5]

The Bendigo Art Gallery holds a collection of her water colours and mounted an exhibition of her work in 1983[6][15] and she was included in exhibitions of Australian artists by Greenaway Gallery, Victoria in 1997 and 1998.[16]

Notes

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  1. ^ Inez Abbbot's birthdate is 1886 according to her birth certificate and the Bendigo Historical Society records. Some sites such as the Bendigo Art Gallery and its catalogue of one of her exhibitions, mistakenly give the birthdate as 1896 which has been carried through in other documentation.
  2. ^ The letter from "R Vallaud" about the acquisition, pictured, may be from Rose Valland, then an assistant curator at Jeu de Paume, formerly an annexe to the Musée du Luxembourg with a Contemporary Foreign Schools section.

References

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  1. ^ "Births deaths and marriages Victoria". my.rio.bdm.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2025-03-18.
  2. ^ "Photograph - Abbott family group, 1895". Victorian Collections. Retrieved 2025-03-18.
  3. ^ "Abbott, Inez". Bendigo Art Gallery Collection. Retrieved 2025-03-15.
  4. ^ "AUSTRALIAN ARTIST IN PARIS". West Australian. 1931-01-09. Retrieved 2025-03-15.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Printmaking, Prints and. "Inez M. Abbott". www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au. Retrieved 2025-03-15.
  6. ^ a b Photocopied newspaper article, 'Water colors at Bendigo Gallery', Inez Abbott, Art and Artist Files, held in the National Gallery of Australia Research and Archive Collection.
  7. ^ a b c The Bulletin, John Ryan Comic Collection (Specific issues)., Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 1880, ISSN 0007-4039, nla.obj-578653765, retrieved 15 March 2025 – via Trove
  8. ^ "ABBOTT, Richard Hartley Smith (1859–1940)Senator for Victoria, 1928–29 (Australian Country Party) | The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate". biography.senate.gov.au. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  9. ^ "MR R. H. ABBOTT - The Violet Town Sentinel (Vic. : 1894 - 1904; 1914 - 1920; 1939 - 1946) - 5 Mar 1940". Trove. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  10. ^ "Richard Abbott - Parliament of Victoria". www.parliament.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  11. ^ a b "Revue du vrai et du beau : lettres et arts / directeur C. Balleroy". Gallica. 1928-08-10. Retrieved 2025-03-15.
  12. ^ "Vol. 53 No. 2733 (29 Jun 1932)". Trove. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  13. ^ "Paysage à l'arbre jaune". Centre Pompidou. Retrieved 2025-03-22.
  14. ^ "ART". Australasian. 1931-12-12. Retrieved 2025-03-22.
  15. ^ "Document - INEZ ABBOTT". Victorian Collections. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  16. ^ Greenaway Gallery. (n.d.). [Greenaway Gallery (Camberwell, Vic.) : Australian Gallery File].
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Images of artworks: Centre Pompidou, Bendigo Art Gallery

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