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Details
- Other Title
- The Bartilidians
- Date
- circa 1926
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- watercolour
- Dimensions
- 35.6 x 63.8 cm
- Credit
- Purchased 1987
- Location
- South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- 463.1987
- Copyright
- © Courtesy Trustees of the Waller Estate
- Artist information
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Napier Waller
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About
The title of this work refers to the followers of Basilides, a second-century Gnostic Christian religious teacher in Alexandria, Egypt. Inspired by Waller's interest in theosophy and other religious and mystical teachings, the meaning of the picture is obscure.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Stampede of the Lower Gods: Classical Mythology in Australian Art 1890's-1930's, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Oct 1989–26 Nov 1989
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Deborah Edwards, Stampede of the Lower Gods: Classical Mythology in Australian Art, 'The New Greece / 'Delos of a coming Sun-god's race'', pg. 31-54, Sydney, Sep 1989, 37 (colour illus.), 52, 65.
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Heather Johnson, Aspects of Art Deco in Australia: Sunrise over the Pacific, 'Art Deco art', pg. 96-105, Sydney, 2001, 99 (colour illus.), 100. plate no. 114
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