The Woman with the Puppets
Artist
Isobel Gloag
(1865 - 1917)
Date1915
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions64.5 x 82.5 cm
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery.
Donated by M. R. Gloag.
Object number291
DescriptionGloag depicts a woman lying naked on a bed with a puppet in one hand and another four cast aside. The puppets are all suited male figures. When this painting was shown in 2016, art critic Cristín Leach described it as “an incontrovertible statement of ownership of space and of self. There is no shame, only freedom — in every cell… Gloag’s depiction is of a woman as a self-sufficient individual, woman as person not object, woman as an active player not a symbol.”On View
Not on view
Dorothy Blackham
Harry Clarke
Evie Sydney Hone
