Title
Pont des Arts, Paris
1966
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Paris III
- Place where the work was made
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Paris
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France
- Date
- 1966
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pen and black ink, carbon pencil, watercolour on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 11.3 x 20.3 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated (incorrectly) l.l., pen and black ink "LR/ 69".
- Credit
- Gift of Alan and Jancis Rees 2002
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 235.2002
- Copyright
- © A&J Rees/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Lloyd Rees
Works in the collection
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About
In 1966-67, Lloyd and Marjory Rees visited Europe for the third time. In October 1966 and again in March 1967, Rees was in Paris, and this and two other small drawings [also in the Gallery's collection] are from a sketchbook used during the trip, which was one of his most rewarding experiences of the city. On earlier visits in 1923 and 1953, he had felt the experience of the First and Second World Wars had cast a blight over the city. But, in 1966, he found 'confirmation of my early idealism. Great areas are now the gleaming city I imagined it to be... All over the city buildings are being restored even in narrow bye [sic] streets.'
(Rees letter to Alan and Jan Rees, 31 October 1966, Rees family collection)The pleasures of this visit is reflected in the concentrated clarity of theses sketches, which depict a pale grey day, shiny as polished pewter. The artist's palette of soft colours suggests that the season is autumn or
winter, and an atmosphere of misty light surrounds the solid inked-in shapes of bulidings, boats and bridges and dissolves the masses of foliage in the avenues of trees.excerpt from exhibition catalogue, 'Lloyd Rees: Coming home', Rockhampton Regional Art Gallery, 2000
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Places
Where the work was made
Paris
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Rees - Whiteley, On the Road to Berry, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, 13 Jul 1993–05 Sep 1993
Rees - Whiteley, On the Road to Berry, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Sep 1993–14 Nov 1993
Lloyd Rees: coming home (1999-2000), Rockhampton Museum of Art, Rockhampton, 28 May 1999–01 Jul 1999
Lloyd Rees: coming home (1999-2000), Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, 17 Sep 1999–31 Oct 1999
Lloyd Rees: coming home (1999-2000), Logan Art Gallery, Logan Central, 19 Nov 1999–29 Dec 1999
Lloyd Rees: coming home (1999-2000), Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba, 06 Jan 2000–06 Feb 2000
Lloyd Rees: coming home (1999-2000), Bank Art Museum Moree, Moree, 11 Feb 2000–26 Mar 2000
Lloyd Rees: coming home (1999-2000), Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, 01 Apr 2000–05 Jun 2000
Lloyd Rees: coming home (1999-2000), Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, 15 Jun 2000–13 Jul 2000
Lloyd Rees: coming home (1999-2000), Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Australia, 11 Aug 2000–14 Sep 2000
Lloyd Rees: coming home (1999-2000), Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 04 Oct 2000–12 Nov 2000
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Lou Klepac, Lloyd Rees drawings, Sydney, 1978, 56 (illus.). cat.no. 46
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Hendrik Kolenberg and Edmund Capon AM, OBE, Lloyd Rees Drawings - Centenary Retrospective, Sydney, 1995, 77 (illus.). cat.no. 84; titled 'Paris III'
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Alan Rees, Jancis Rees and Sue Smith, Lloyd Rees coming home, Rockhampton, 1999, 38 (illus.). cat.no. 19
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