Title
Figure study: French sailor standing, one leg raised on box
(1928)
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Paris
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France
- Date
- (1928)
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pencil on buff wove paper
- Dimensions
- 35.0 x 23.0 cm sheet (irreg.)
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of the artist 1980
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 169.1980
- Copyright
- © Reproduced with permission of Grace Crowley Estate
- Artist information
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Grace Crowley
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About
Grace Crowley was a key Sydney modernist in the inter-war period. She studied for three years in Paris in the late 1920s under a number of teachers including André Lhote and Albert Gleizes. When she returned to Australia she established an art school with Rah Fizelle, where they expounded developments in modern French art for their Australian students. Crowley's own work was a modified, academic cubism based on planar geometry and dynamic symmetry. The Gallery has a large collection of drawings by Crowley, including a number of life studies.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2004
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Places
Where the work was made
Paris
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Exhibition history
Shown in 6 exhibitions
Project 4 - Grace Crowley (1975), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 10 May 1975–08 Jun 1975
Review: works by women from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 08 Mar 1995–04 Jun 1995
Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Dec 1997–15 Mar 1998
Parallel Visions: Twenty-two artists from the Australian collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Feb 2002–May 2003
Sydney Moderns, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Jul 2013–07 Oct 2013
The View from 1919, Tamworth Regional Gallery, Tamworth, 01 Jun 2019–28 Jul 2019
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Bibliography
Referenced in 7 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Grace Crowley, Sydney, 1975. cat.no. 4
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Sue Cramer and Lesley Harding, Cubism & Australian art, 'Learning Cubism', pg. 36-47, Melbourne, 2009, 39 (colour illus.).
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Nicolas Draffin, Three years on: a selection of acquisitions 1978-1981, 'Prints and Drawings - Australia, European and American', pg. 47-66, Sydney, 1981, 61 (illus.). cat.no. 29
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1997, 42 (illus.). cat.no. 29
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Terence Maloon, Sydney moderns: art for a new world, 'The pedagogy of modern art: the quest for modernity by Australian artists abroad', pg. 239-251, Sydney, 2013, 241 (colour illus.), 311.
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Daniel Thomas AM (Curator), Project 4: Grace Crowley, Sydney, 1975. cat.no. 3
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Natalie Wilson, Parallel visions: works from the Australian collection, 'Grace Crowley / Ralph Balson / Frank Hinder / Margel Hinder', pg. 88-103, Sydney, 2002, 88 (colour illus.), 89, 142, 147.
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