1. Moya Dyring was one of the first women artists to embrace Modernism and exhibit cubist paintings in Melbourne.
16 Facts About Moya Dyring
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Moya Dyring's work is held in the Heide Museum as well as the National Gallery of Australia.
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Moya Clare Dyring was born in Coburg, Victoria in 1909, the third child of Carl Peter Wilhelm Dyring, medical practitioner, and his second wife Dagmar Alexandra Esther, nee Cohn, both Victorian born.
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For several months in 1937 Moya Dyring took charge of Heide, the home and garden of the art patrons John and Sunday Reed, at Bulleen, a suburb of Melbourne.
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Moya Dyring became part of the artist community that developed around Heide, the Heide Circle and developed a strong friendship with Sunday Reed and with the artist Joy Hester.
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Much of what is known about Moya Dyring's life comes from her life-long letters to Sunday Reed.
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Moya Dyring had a successful solo exhibition at Riddell Gallery in Melbourne in June 1937.
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Moya Dyring disliked the work of contemporary American artists and sailed for France.
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Moya Dyring studied at the Academie Colarossi, the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere and with Andre Lhote.
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From Australia Moya Dyring travelled to Dominica where she married Atyeo.
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Atyeo was offered work in the USA and Moya Dyring followed him there.
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In 1946 Moya Dyring returned alone to Paris and they divorced in 1950.
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In 1961, Moya Dyring curated the Australian submission to the Paris Biennale.
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Moya Dyring returned to Australia five times and exhibited in several cities on each visit.
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Moya Dyring remained in contact with the Reeds right up until her death from Cancer in 1967 in Wimbledon, London.
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In 1934 Moya Dyring painted Portrait of Sunday Reed which went into the Reed's collection, along with a cubist style Portrait of a Woman from the same year.