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Details
- Date
- 1945
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on paperboard
- Dimensions
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58.5 d 72.0 cm board; 71.9 x 85.3 x 5.5 cm frame
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0 - Whole, 58.4 x 72.2 cm, SIGHT DIMENSION
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l. corner, black ink "G Cossington Smith. 45".
- Credit
- Purchased under the terms of the Florence Turner Blake Bequest 1976
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 187.1976
- Copyright
- © Estate of Grace Cossington Smith
- Artist information
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Grace Cossington Smith
Works in the collection
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About
'Signing' is about the historic Yalta Agreement in 1945. It is a tense, ambiguous depiction of the encounter of the world leaders, Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt, with photographers in the background. The artist focuses our attention on the act of signing, as if to convey that with a stroke of a pen the fate of millions of lives is sealed.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Grace Cossington Smith (1976), Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 03 Mar 1976–15 Mar 1976
Grace Cossington Smith: a retrospective exhibition (2005), National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 04 Mar 2005–13 Jun 2005
Grace Cossington Smith: a retrospective exhibition (2005), Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 29 Jul 2005–09 Oct 2005
Grace Cossington Smith: a retrospective exhibition (2005), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 Oct 2005–15 Jan 2006
Grace Cossington Smith: a retrospective exhibition (2005), Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 11 Feb 2006–30 Apr 2006
Artists as Social Commentators and Activists 1946-2006, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Manly, 06 Sep 2007–28 Oct 2007
Artists as Social Commentators and Activists 1946-2006, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, 08 Feb 2008–30 Mar 2008
An expanded vision: Mary Turner collection, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, 27 Aug 2011–30 Oct 2011
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Bibliography
Referenced in 6 publications
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Manly Art Gallery and Museum (Editor), Artists as social commentators and activists, Sydney, 2007, 30, 6 (colour illus.).
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Ann Proudfoot (Curator), An expanded view: the Mary Turner Collection at Orange Regional Gallery, 'List of works', pg. 117-124, Orange, 2011, 122.
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Alan Sisley, Central Western Daily, 'Colourful characters from a shady past', n.pag., Orange, 29 Oct 2011, n.pag. (colour illus.). Article relates to the exhibition 'An expanded vision: Mary Turner collection' held at Orange Regional Gallery in 2011.
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Virginia Spate, Art Monthly Australia, 'Amazing Grace: Thoughts inspired by the Grace Cossington Smith exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra', pg. 22-30, Canberra, Aug 2005, 27-28.
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Catherine Speck, Painting ghosts: Australian women artists in wartime, Melbourne, 2004, 192 (colour illus.), 193, 233. illus.no. 115
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Daniel Thomas, Grace Cossington Smith, 'Modernity and inwards', pg. 102-107, Canberra, 2005, 102 (illus.), 147-148, 149 (colour illus.), 179.
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