Earle Backen
(Australia 01 Sep 1927–03 Oct 2005)
- Title
- Façade
- Year
- 1994
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- pencil, watercolour on white wove paper
- Dimensions
-
50.0 x 69.0cm sight; 100.0 x 77.5 x 3.5cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.r., pencil "E Backen '94".
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Australian Prints, Drawings and Watercolours Benefactors Fund 2006
- Accession number
- 304.2006
- Copyright
- © Earle Backen Estate
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Earle Backen distinguished himself as a printmaker and teacher of printmaking in Sydney in the 1960s and 70s after spending a number of years in London and more significantly, Paris, in the 1950s as a NSW Traveling Scholarship holder.
In the 1980s he put printmaking aside and devoted himself wholly to painting, producing some of the finest classically inspired modern still life compositions by any Australian artist.
Backen excelled as a watercolourist; his mastery over the medium revealed not only great freedom of execution over transparent washes of watercolour, but also control over brilliantly saturated light-filled colour and fine draughtsmanship.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2006
