Title
Study for a painting
circa 1947-circa 1948
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
- circa 1947-circa 1948
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pen and sienna ink, wash
- Dimensions
- 15.8 x 12.8 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Frank O'Keefe 1993
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 222.1993
- Copyright
- © Gleeson/O'Keefe Foundation
- Artist information
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James Gleeson
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About
It was in Paris in 1947 that Gleeson first experience the incongruity of a nun in full habit with distinctive head-dress, riding a bicycle. This drawing includes nuns as shallow punts (which he termed 'nun-punts'), an image he used in a number of paintings including 'The harbour' 1948, 'The messengers' 1949 and 'The sewing circle' 1951. The drawing also reveals Gleeson's interest in dramatic subjects - disasters, fire, war - favoured by romantic and surrealist artists. This drawing was never developed into a painting.
Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, 'James Gleeson: drawings for paintings', Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2003, pg. 46.
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Places
Where the work was made
Sydney
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
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 1 publication
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Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, James Gleeson: drawings for paintings, Sydney, 2003, 46 (colour illus.). cat.no. 10
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