Lloyd Rees
(Australia 17 Mar 1895–02 Dec 1988)
- Title
- The great rock: dusk
- Year
- 1977
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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95.2 x 116.9cm stretcher; 118.2 x 138.1 x 8.5cm frame:
0 - Whole; 95 x 115.1cm; SIGHT DIMENSION
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.l. corner, black oil "L REES 79".
- Credit
- Purchased 1977
- Accession number
- 225.1977
- Copyright
- © A & J Rees. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney
- Location
- 20th & 21st c Australian art
- Further information
Rees visited Central Australia with his wife in 1976, where he made a number of drawings and watercolours at various times of the day. He described his impression of Uluru (Ayers Rock):
"... the great Rock that is revealed at sunset is an amazing sight. It is very red, but it is also very simple. You hardly see any form at all, it is sort of flat. But I found out that if you go before the sunset and get to the side of the Rock, you see an amazing amount of natural sculpture. The rock in general terms looks so simple, but get the side rays ... and nature's bas-relief of the Rock is the most thrilling part of it. So 'The great Rock - dusk' ... was my reaction to this sculptural quality."
- Lloyd Rees 1983Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2000
- Bibliography (2)
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Lou Klepac (Australia; Croatia, b.1936) (Author), Affinities: Brett Whiteley & Lloyd Rees, Domain, 2001, front cover (colour illus.), 8.
'Under the influence: the work of Lloyd Rees and Brett Whiteley hangs side-by-side in a new exhibition' by Jane Hampson, pg. 12-16., Look Feb 2001, Feb 2001, 15 (colour illus.).
- Exhibition history (4)
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Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000.
Affinities: Brett Whiteley & Lloyd Rees (2001), The Brett Whiteley Studio, 10 Feb 2001–08 Jul 2001.
Whiteley & Rees: more affinities (2006), The Brett Whiteley Studio, 03 Dec 2005–09 Apr 2006.
Whiteley & Rees: more affinities (2006), New England Regional Art Museum, 29 Apr 2006–02 Jul 2006.
