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Details
- Date
- 1945
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- 56.6 x 41.5 cm board; 71.0 x 56.0 x 7.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1946
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 7839
- Copyright
- © Estate of Ruskin Spear/Bridgeman Art Library
- Artist information
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Ruskin Spear
Works in the collection
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About
Hammersmith, London
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Artists of fame and of promise, 1946, The Leicester Galleries, London, Jul 1946–Aug 1946
Unknown, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 05 Apr 1951–05 Oct 1951
20th-Century galleries, ground level (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Ernest Brown and Phillips Ltd, London, Catalogue of an exhibition of paintings, drawings, sculpture by artists of fame and of promise, London, 1946. cat.no. 70
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Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, 182 (illus.).
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Tanya Harrod, Humankind: Ruskin Spear, 'Hammersmith in darkness and light', pg.74-112, London, 2022, 82 (colour illus.). no.79
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Anne Kirker and Peter Tomory, British painting 1800–1990 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1997, 160. cat.no. 2026
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Provenance
The Leicester Galleries, London/England, Purchased by the AGNSW from the Leicester Galleries 1946
