Title
The kiss of the sun
circa 1900-circa 1910
Artist
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Details
- Alternative title
- Le baiser du soleil
- Date
- circa 1900-circa 1910
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 99.0 x 110.0 cm stretcher; 126.8 x 137.6 x 8.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., red paint "Gaston La Touche". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1923
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 922
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Gaston La Touche
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
European Art Exhibition for Australia, Sydney Town Hall, Australia, Jul 1923–Jul 1923
Exhibition of continental art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 1940–Dec 1940
Salon and Academie: the charm of tradition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Nov 1984–May 1985
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Bibliography
Referenced in 9 publications
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Selina Baring Maclennan, Gaston La Touche, a painter of Belle Époque dreams, Woodbridge, 2009, pp 115, 189, 204, col illus p 118, pl 96.
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Penleigh Boyd, European art exhibition for Australia (exh cat), Town Hall, Sydney / Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne, Sydney, 1923, p [29], no 490.
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George Harris, 'Art Gallery Trust [letter]', Sydney Morning Herald, no 26690, 21 Jul 1923, p 16.
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Emmanuelle Le Bail, Gaston La Touche (1854-1913), les fantaisies d'un peintre de la Belle Époque, 2014, p 69.
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Art Gallery of New South Wales: exhibition of continental art, Sydney, 1940, np, no 8.
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Anna Waldmann, Renée Free and Nicholas Draffin, Salon and Académie: the charm of tradition: a catalogue of nineteenth-century European salon works, Sydney, 1984, pp [10], [34], illus p [34]. No catalogue numbers.
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National Art Gallery of NSW: illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1924, p 54, no 140.
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales (annual report of the trustees for the year 1923), Sydney, 1924, p 2.
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'European art – exhibition at Town Hall – opened by Lord Forster', Sydney Morning Herald, no 26680, 10 Jul 1923, p 6.
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Provenance
Source unknown, Purchased by the AGNSW from the 'European Art Exhibition for Australia' Sydney Town Hall 1923