Clive Wallis
(Australia, New Zealand 1909–1983)
- Title
- Ladies' lounge
- Place of origin
-
Sydney →
New South Wales →
Australia
- Year
- circa 1920s
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pencil on thin cream paper
- Dimensions
-
23.9 x 31.5cm image; 31.0 x 41.4cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Australian Prints, Drawings and Watercolours Benefactors' Fund 2012
- Accession number
- 182.2012
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This closely observed drawing of two women drinking in a bar is remarkable in its pithy attention to detail; the subjects' discontent and boredom is palpable, while the viewer is transported immediately into the demi-monde of a Sydney pub's "ladies Lounge" or a European café, with its marble topped, cast iron café tables.
- Bibliography (1)
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Josef Lebovic Gallery (Australia, estab. 1977) (Editor), Australian works on paper, Paddington, Dec 2011, 30 (colour illus.). cat.no. 171; priced $1,650
