Lloyd Rees
(Australia 17 Mar 1895–02 Dec 1988)
- Title
- The waterfall, Tasmania
- Year
- 1982
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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121.8 x 152.2cm stretcher; 148.5 x 178.0 x 8.0cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.r. corner, blue oil "L REES 82".
- Credit
- Purchased 1982
- Accession number
- 243.1982
- Copyright
- © A & J Rees. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney
- Location
- 20th & 21st c Australian art
- Further information
"I have come to the point of looking at each picture as a new adventure. In some cases I have thrown turpentine over the whole picture and have let everything run together, and where I've wanted to get the feeling of sky I have used the ball of my hand, which I would not have done in the past. I worked rather furiously on these.
If there is one thing I want now it is for my paintings to be light right through. One of the great things the Impressionists did, probably not consciously, was to bring back what the great fresco schools of Italy had achieved, the sense of the painting being on a light background. This is what I am trying to do here, to make the lightness of the canvas the dominating thing."
- Lloyd Rees 1982Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2000
- Bibliography (5)
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Lou Klepac (Australia; Croatia, b.1936) (Author), Affinities: Brett Whiteley & Lloyd Rees, Domain, 2001, 8.
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Domain, 2000, 287 (colour illus.), 301.
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Older Australian masters: an exhibition of works by major Australian artists executed in the later years of their careers, Domain, 1991, front cover (colour illus.). not paginated, no catalogue numbers
Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Two centuries of Australian painting: a selection from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, New South Wales, 1986, 47 (illus.). cat.no. 55
Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Editor), Jan Meek (Australia) (Editor), Portrait of a Gallery, Sydney, 1984, 79 (colour illus.).
- Exhibition history (6)
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Two centuries of Australian painting, a selection from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Orange Regional Gallery, 19 Apr 1986–15 Jun 1986.
Older Australian masters: an exhibition of works by major Australian artists executed in the later years of their careers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 16 Mar 1992–12 Apr 1992.
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.
