Title
Study for 'The chrysalis dreams of empire'
1991
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1991
- Media categories
- Drawing , Collage
- Materials used
- charcoal, paper collage on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 37.8 x 51.2 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., charcoal "Gleeson 19.7.91".
- Credit
- Gift of the artist 2001
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 205.2001
- Copyright
- Artist information
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James Gleeson
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About
'... a chrysalis, you know those shapes, they're so passive really, I imagine one dreaming of empire, being master of the universe!', James Gleeson 27 August 2002.
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. 99.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
James Gleeson: drawings for paintings, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Apr 2003–15 Jun 2003
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, James Gleeson: drawings for paintings, Sydney, 2003, 98 (colour illus.), 99. cat.no. 44
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