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Details
- Date
- 1923
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- plaster
- Dimensions
- 27.0 x 28.0 x 15.0 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 2000 from the collection of Stanley Cecil Chamberlain with funds provided by the 1000 Club
- Location
- South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- 212.2000
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Rayner Hoff
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 5 exhibitions
Society of Artists Annual Exhibition (1924), Education Department Gallery [Loftus Street], Sydney, 12 Sep 1924–04 Oct 1924
Sculpture of Rayner Hoff: Memorial Exhibition, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, Sydney, 19 May 1938–04 Jun 1938
'This vital flesh': the sculpture of Rayner Hoff and his school, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 26 Nov 1999–16 Jan 2000
Parallel Visions: Twenty-two artists from the Australian collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Feb 2002–May 2003
20th-Century galleries, ground level (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 5 publications
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Deborah Edwards, Aspects of Art Deco in Australia: Sunrise over the Pacific, 'The new classicism: Rayner Hoff and his school', pg. 36-45, Sydney, 2001, 41.
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Deborah Edwards, 'This vital flesh': the sculpture of Rayner Hoff and his school, 'Australia, the new Greece: the body as nation', pg. 30-51, Sydney, 1999, 32 (colour illus.), 100-101. NOTE: this is a bronze cast of this sculpture, however, this plaster version is mentioned in cataloguing details as being in a Private Collection - see page 101
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Deborah Edwards, Art and Australia (Vol. 24, No. 1), '"This vital flesh": the 1920s sculpture of Rayner Hoff', pg. 62-68, Sydney, Spring 1986, 68 (illus.). NOTE: this is a bronze cast of the sculpture in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia
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Liz Gibson, Parallel visions: works from the Australian collection, 'Rayner Hoff / Arthur Murch', pg. 60-71, Sydney, 2002, 144.
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Sotheby's Australia, Sotheby's Australian and International art, including the Goldman Sachs JBWere collection of Australian art, Sydney 28 June 2005, Sydney, 2005, 137 (colour illus.). lot no. 490 is a plaster cast version of this sculpture and was exhibited in 'This vital flesh: The sculpture of Raynor Hoff and his school', AGNSW in 1999.
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