While painting Interior in yellow Cossington Smith fell and broke her hip. She finished the painting 2 years after beginning it, and it is tempting to read into the enclosed feel of the room something of her confinement during during this time.
Visual analysis: The angled bed and chair dominate the foreground of this dramatically glowing painting, with the strong diagonal of the floor and walls leading the viewer’s eye to the far corner of..." http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/cossingtonsmith/Detail