Title
Study for 'Clouds of witness'
1953
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Study of male figure
- Date
- 1953
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pen and black ink on violet/grey wash
- Dimensions
- 25.4 x 18.3 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Not signed. Dated l.r., pen and black ink "10.9.53".
- Credit
- Gift of Frank O'Keefe 1993
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 201.1993
- Copyright
- © Gleeson/O'Keefe Foundation
- Artist information
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James Gleeson
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About
This is a rare study for the central male figure of the middle panel of a triptych, painted thirteen years after the drawing. Male figures in Gleeson's paintings from the 1950s and 60s were generally based on photographs in physical culture magazines, rather than on studies from life.
Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, 'James Gleeson: drawings for paintings', Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2003, pg. 55.
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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, 54 (colour illus.), 55. cat.no. 16
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