Title
Studies for 'Eau + Feu = Calamite' Execution
1944
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Sydney
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New South Wales
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Australia
- Date
- 1944
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pen and black ink, watercolour, opaque white
- Dimensions
- 26.5 x 31.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., pen and black ink "... J Gleeson 1944"
- Credit
- Gift of Frank O'Keefe 1993
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 125.1993
- Copyright
- © Gleeson/O'Keefe Foundation
- Artist information
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James Gleeson
Works in the collection
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About
The drawing 'Execution' is a direct reference to Francisco Goya's masterpiece 'Third of May 1808', 1814, in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, 'James Gleeson: drawings for paintings', Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2003, pg.32.
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Places
Where the work was made
Sydney
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Modernism 1900-1950: prints and drawings from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 23 Jul 1994–25 Sep 1994
James Gleeson: drawings for paintings, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Apr 2003–15 Jun 2003
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Renée Free, Modernism 1900-1950: prints and drawings from the collection, Sydney, 1994.
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Hendrik Kolenberg, James Gleeson: drawings for paintings, 'Introduction', pg. 11-16, Sydney, 2003, 13, 34 (colour illus.). cat.no. 3d
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