Title
Theatre (recto); Study for 'The hanged man' (verso)
1943
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- former verso: The Hanged man
- Date
- 1943
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- black ink, watercolour, gouache on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 26.3 x 37.7 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated u.r., blue gouache "Tucker Sept 1943".
- Credit
- Purchased 1990
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 451.1990
- Copyright
- © Albert & Barbara Tucker Foundation. Courtesy of Smith & Singer Fine Art
- Artist information
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Albert Tucker
Works in the collection
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About
Most of Albert Tucker's drawings are closely linked to paintings and it is partly because of this relationship that they are made using the most painterly of media - watercolour, gouache and pastel. Tucker's grim vision of city life in Australia during the Second World War is forcefully expressed in this vigorous and expressive work.
Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2000
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Albert Tucker; the mythologies and images, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, North Caulfield, 26 Jun 1990–13 Jul 1990
Albert Tucker; the mythologies and images, Savill Galleries [Sydney], Paddington, 01 Aug 1990–18 Aug 1990
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Oct 1994–27 Nov 1994
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, , 04 Mar 1995–01 Apr 1995
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Griffith Regional Art Gallery, , 03 May 1995–03 Jun 1995
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Australia, 22 Jun 1995–30 Jul 1995
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Nov 1995–14 Jan 1996
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 1996–1996
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, 1996–1996
Albert Tucker: promised gifts from the Estate, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Jan 2007–11 Mar 2007
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Bibliography
Referenced in 5 publications
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, 'Introduction: Painting in watercolour', pg. 8-16, Sydney, 1995, cover (colour illus.), 13, 72 (colour illus.), 121. cat.no. 61; The colour illustration appearing on the cover is a detail of the image.
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Everyday life: prints drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European art, Sydney, 1994. cat.no. 84
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Dr Juliette Peers, 1940s Melbourne: Photographs by Albert Tucker, 'Et in Arcady ego: Mapping Melbourne Culture with Albert Tucker's Photography', pg.9-36, Victoria, 2009, 26 (colour illus.).
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Lauraine Diggins, Albert Tucker; the mythologies and images, Sydney, 1990, 17 (colour illus.). cat.no. 11
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Natalie Wilson, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Out of Melbourne: realisms and mythologies', pg. 163-164, Sydney, 2000, 178 (colour illus.), 302.
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