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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Sydney
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- Date
- 1962
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pastel on paper (illustrated magazine page)
- Dimensions
- 21.4 x 15.2 cm sheet; folded
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Cassi Plate 2012
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 249.2012
- Copyright
- © Estate of Carl Plate
- Artist information
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Carl Plate
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This study is one of a number of delightful, jewel-like miniature drawings described by Plate at the time as “maquettes”, a word more commonly used to describe small-scale models for sculpture. He made hundreds of them, many of which he retained in his studio for reference and further development. Not all the maquettes Plate made were developed into larger works, but many were, and he occasionally wrote on them afterwards, linking them to a finished piece.
'One makes a small maquette, a very small ... piece of note ... and if this appears to have some life, ... one might develop it perhaps a bit more on to paper or board, and in this process the thing may develop, it may become more alive; it is a process of breathing on this tiny little flame'.
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Where the work was made
Sydney