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Details
- Other Title
- The book of serenity
- Alternative title
- Le Livre de Paix
- Date
- 1913
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on wood panel
- Dimensions
- 160.3 x 104.7 cm board; 192.5 x 133.6 x 12.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1913
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- 782
- Copyright
- © Estate of Edgard Maxence/ADAGP. Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Edgard Maxence
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Salon de la Société des Artistes Français de 1913, Grand Palais, Paris, 30 Apr 1913–30 Jun 1913
Salon and Academie: the charm of tradition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Nov 1984–May 1985
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 18 publications
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Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'European', Sydney, 1988, pp 36-56: p 41.
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Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales: Minutes 27.8.1909-28.4.1916, Sydney, 1909-1916, pp 312–13 (26 Sep 1913); p 321 (24 Oct 1913); p 326 (21 Nov 1913).
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Anna Waldmann, Renée Free and Nicholas Draffin, Salon and Académie: the charm of tradition: a catalogue of nineteenth-century European salon works, Sydney, 1984, pp [5], [37], illus cover, p [37].
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AGNSW archive BF 76/1913, 09 Oct 1913.
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AGNSW archive BF 81/1913, 26 Oct 1913.
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AGNSW archive BF 96/1913, 31 Oct 1913.
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AGNSW archive BF 103/1913, 31 Oct 1913.
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AGNSW archive BF 105/1913, 14 Nov 1913.
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AGNSW archive BF 104a/1913, 11 Dec 1913.
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Explication des ouvrages de peintures, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivants exposés au Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées le 30 avril 1913, Paris, 1913, p 110, no 1236.
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AGNSW archive BF 57/1914, 16 Jul 1914.
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales (report of the trustees for the year 1913), Sydney, 1914, p 2.
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National Art Gallery of NSW: illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1917, p 54, no 185, illus p 54.
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National Art Gallery of NSW: illustrated catalogue, Sydney, 1924, p 40, no 113.
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AGNSW archive BF 90/1913, 10 Oct 1913.
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AGNSW archive BF 104b/1913, 10 Jan 1914.
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Société des Artistes Français. Catalogue illustré du Salon de 1913, Paris, 1913, np, no 1236, illus p 9.
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AGNSW archive BF 104/1913, 07 May 1913.
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Provenance
Paris Salon, Paris/France, Purchased by the AGNSW from the Paris Salon 1913