Kevin Connor
(Australia 1932– )
- Title
- The man with itchy fingers and other figures near Gare du Nord
- Place of origin
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Woollahra →
Sydney →
New South Wales →
Australia
- Year
- 1997
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- gouache, ink on 2 sheets of 300 gsm Arches paper
- Dimensions
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150.0 x 360.0cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.l., brush and black ink "Connor 97".
- Credit
- Gift of the artist 2002
- Accession number
- 309.2002
- Copyright
- © Kevin Connor
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
The subject of Kevin Connor's Sulman Prize winning gouache is anxiety - a dark nervous tremor is at the core of the work. Based on numerous drawings made at Gare du Nord, Paris as he observed the life of the busiest of railways stations, it reflects a lifelong preoccupation - his fascination at human behaviour wherever people congregate - food halls, railway stations, inner city streets etc. A central feature of the gouache is a man who frequents the area around the Gare du Nord who appears to have itchy fingers, observed on many occasions by the artist on his many visits to Paris.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2002
- Bibliography (2)
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'Drawing on an artist's life' by Jill Sykes, pg. 20-23., Look Apr 2006, Apr 2006, 21.
'Australian PDW Benefactors' by Anne Ryan., Foundation Newsletter #2 May 2003, May 2003, (colour illus.).
