Painted soon after Margaret Cilento’s return to Australia in 1951 from studying in New York, London and Paris, House at Annerley Junction shows the influence of her exposure to the postwar international artistic climate. The results of Cilento’s studies overseas can be seen in a consolidation of the more radical ideas of the abstract expressionists — concerning art as a means of self-extension and its reduction to gesture and colour — together with her own preference for recording her surroundings.