Title
The great rock: dusk
1977
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1977
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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95.2 x 116.9 cm stretcher; 118.2 x 138.1 x 8.5 cm frame
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0 - Whole, 95 x 115.1 cm, SIGHT DIMENSION
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l. corner, black oil "L REES 79".
- Credit
- Purchased 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 225.1977
- Copyright
- © A&J Rees/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Lloyd Rees
Works in the collection
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About
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
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
Affinities: Brett Whiteley & Lloyd Rees (2001), The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 10 Feb 2001–08 Jul 2001
Whiteley & Rees: more affinities (2006), The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 03 Dec 2005–10 Apr 2006
Whiteley & Rees: more affinities (2006), New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, 29 Apr 2006–02 Jul 2006
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Bibliography
Referenced in 6 publications
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Clary Akon, Limelight Magazine, 'Nature by design: the art of Lloyd Rees', pg. 96-97, Sydney, Jun 2013, 96.
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Christopher Allen, The Weekend Australian, 'Tangible Life Forms', pg. 12-13, Sydney, 01 Jun 2013-02 Jun 2013, 13 (colour illus.).
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Chris Dalton, From Terra Nullius to beloved companion: reimagining land in Australia, 'Australian landscape art', pg. 53-66, Underwood, 2017, 60, n.pag. (colour illus., detail).
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Jane Hampson, Look, 'Under the influence: the work of Lloyd Rees and Brett Whiteley hangs side-by-side in a new exhibition', pg. 12-16, Melbourne, Feb 2001, 15 (colour illus.).
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Lou Klepac, Affinities: Brett Whiteley & Lloyd Rees, 'Introduction', pg. 2-4, Sydney, 2001, front cover (colour illus.), 8.
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Jill Sykes (Editor), Look, 'Contents', pg. 7, Sydney, Mar 2013, cover (colour illus., detail), 7 (colour illus.), 22.
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