Summer Afternoon in Florence

Margaret Cilento's work is held in major public art galleries in Australia, including the Art Gallery of Nsw, the Australian National Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Victoria. She won international prizes for her work and studied at prestigious schools in New York, Paris and London. She worked under Rufino Tamayo at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, at William Hayter's famous Atelier 17 in New York and was awarded a French Government scholarship to study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She was a pioneer in Abstract Expressionism and a master of figurative work.