Title
Souvenir
1943
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
- 1943
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on paperboard
- Dimensions
- 20.1 x 25.1 cm board (irreg.); 32.0 x 37.1 x 3.8 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. corner, white oil "W Dobell. 43".
- Credit
- Gift from the Instone Collection in memory of Roland Instone 1972
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 84.1972
- Copyright
- © Courtesy Sir William Dobell Art Foundation
- Artist information
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William Dobell
Works in the collection
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Places
Where the work was made
Sydney
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Exhibition history
Shown in 7 exhibitions
Society of Artists Annual Exhibition (1943), Education Department Gallery [Loftus Street], Sydney, 14 Aug 1943–01 Sep 1943
Famous paintings from Australian homes, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, Sydney, 14 May 1957–24 May 1957
The art of William Dobell (1959), Finney's Art Gallery, Brisbane, 11 Aug 1959–11 Sep 1959
William Dobell: Paintings from 1926 - 1964 (1964), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Jul 1964–30 Aug 1964
William Dobell the painter's progress (1997-1998), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 Feb 1997–27 Apr 1997
William Dobell the painter's progress (1997-1998), Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, 07 May 1997–06 Jul 1997
William Dobell the painter's progress (1997-1998), Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, 29 Jul 1997–21 Sep 1997
William Dobell the painter's progress (1997-1998), Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 25 Oct 1997–07 Dec 1997
William Dobell the painter's progress (1997-1998), Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 08 Jan 1998–01 Mar 1998
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
Kings Cross - Bohemian Sydney, Elizabeth Bay House, Elizabeth Bay, 31 May 2003–21 Sep 2003
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Bibliography
Referenced in 6 publications
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Prue Davidson, William Dobell - the painter's progress, 'Return to Sydney and the war years', pg. 73-89, Sydney, 1997, 73, 74, 77 (colour illus), 78, 144. cat.no. 25a
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Elizabeth Donaldson and Robert Donaldson, William Dobell: his life, art and home, 'Return to Australia, the war years', pg. 27-35, New South Wales, 2011, 28, 34 (colour illus.), 137.
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Elizabeth Donaldson, William Dobell: an artist's life, 'The War years', pg. 57-69, New South Wales, 2010, 61, 62 (colour illus.), 201 (colour illus.).
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James Gleeson, The drawings of William Dobell in the Australian National Gallery, 'At the Cross', pg. 46-47, Canberra, 1992, 46, 47 (colour illus.), 63. figure no. 67
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Hal Missingham, William Dobell, Brisbane, 1959. cat.no. 18; titled 'The souvenir'; Lent from the collection of late R Instone, Esq., Sydney; not paginated
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Yvonne Preston, The Sydney Morning Herald, 'Hunt for "borrower" as Dobell work is recovered', pg. 3, Sydney, 28 Aug 1984, 3 (illus.). Article about the theft and recovery of the painting from the Gallery in August 1984.
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