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Title

Study for 'Genesis'

1991

Artist

James Gleeson

Australia

21 Nov 1915 – 20 Oct 2008

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  • Details

    Date
    1991
    Media category
    Drawing
    Materials used
    charcoal, collage, squared with pencil on white wove paper
    Dimensions
    37.9 x 51.0 cm sheet
    Signature & date

    Signed and dated l.r., charcoal "Gleeson 5.5.91".

    Credit
    Gift of the artist 2001
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    189.2001
    Artist information
    James Gleeson

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    'Genesis really described what I had in mind. Forms issuing from the darkness into the light and becoming concrete shapes and forms, the beginning', James Gleeson 27 August 2003.

    The first study for this drawing is in the AGNSW's Gleeson 'Sketchbook 3'.

    Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, 'James Gleeson: drawings for paintings', Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2003, pg. 97.

  • Exhibition history

    Shown in 1 exhibition

  • Bibliography

    Referenced in 1 publication

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