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Details
- Date
- 1983
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pastel, black ink, opaque white on black paper
- Dimensions
- 30.7 x 47.2 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l., white opaque white "Gleeson 3.1.83".
- Credit
- Gift of Frank O'Keefe 1995
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 69.1995.2
- Copyright
- © Gleeson/O'Keefe Foundation
- Artist information
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James Gleeson
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About
When he worked in pastel on black paper, as in this case, another dimension is added, suggesting night or something sombre.
'... I wanted to get a picture in glowing, rich autumnal colours that would convey the kind of anxiety/not anxiety, sort of melancholy of autumn. I always react fairly strongly to weather conditions. Autumn - never comfortable, particularly in England. It always conveys the ending of things to me. The idea of termination was perhaps the incentive behind this picture', Gleeson quoted in Renée Free's unpublished catalogue of James Gleeson's work.
Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, 'James Gleeson: drawings for paintings', Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2003, pg. 79.
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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, 78 (colour illus.), 79. cat.no. 30b
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