Title
Pied-à-terre
(circa 1950)
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Darwin
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Northern Territory
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Australia
- Date
- (circa 1950)
- Media categories
- Drawing , Watercolour
- Materials used
- charcoal, watercolour and gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- 69.4 x 51.3 cm sight; 94.3 x 74.2 x 4.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1996
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 485.1996
- Copyright
- © Estate of Ian Fairweather/DACS. Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Ian Fairweather
Works in the collection
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About
The figures in 'Pied-à-terre' are rudely abbreviated, their extremities cut short by the edge of the picture plane, their form compressed by flattened perspective. This drawing was made in the summer of 1950-51 in the artist's sixtieth year, when he was living in an abandoned patrol boat on the shores of Darwin Harbour. This period has been described as a crossroads for Fairweather, where he was wresting with his identity as an Englishman abroad and an artist whose work was rooted firmly in the Australian landscape.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2004
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Places
Where the work was made
Darwin
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Exhibition history
Shown in 7 exhibitions
Old Masters: Fairweather, Tuckson (1994), Niagara Galleries, Richmond, 08 Mar 1994–02 Apr 1994
Ian Fairweather (1891-1974) and Tony Tuckson (1920-1973), Watters Gallery, East Sydney, 12 Apr 1994–30 Apr 1994
Fairweather (1994), Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 01 Oct 1994–27 Nov 1994
Fairweather (1994), National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 17 Dec 1994–19 Feb 1995
Fairweather (1994), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Mar 1995–07 May 1995
The drawings of Ian Fairweather (1997-1998), National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 21 Jun 1997–24 Aug 1997
The drawings of Ian Fairweather (1997-1998), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Oct 1997–07 Dec 1997
The drawings of Ian Fairweather (1997-1998), Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 07 Feb 1998–29 Mar 1998
Bodyline, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, , 03 Feb 2001–08 Apr 2001
Ink: Whiteley and others (2006), The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 29 Apr 2006–20 Aug 2006
Ian Fairweather Gouache Drawings, Stanley Coe Gallery,
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Bibliography
Referenced in 7 publications
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Murray Bail, Ian Fairweather, 'Darwin: the raft', pg. 94-108, Sydney, 2009, 98 (illus.), 252. figure no. 24; cat.no. 97; dated 1951
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Murray Bail, Ian Fairweather, 'The emerging line & Aboriginal influence', pg. 90- 110., Sydney, 1981, 91, 96, 97 (illus.), 238. plate no. 40; cat.no. 89; Collection of Mrs J.E.A. Walkley.
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Tim Fisher, The drawings of Ian Fairweather, 'The Calcutta Group', pg. 9, Port Melbourne, 1997, 13-15, 51 (colour illus.).
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Niagara Galleries, Old Masters: Fairweather, Tuckson, Melbourne, 1994, (colour illus.). cat.no. 2
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Queensland Art Gallery (Curator), Fairweather: a retrospective exhibition, South Brisbane, Jun 1965. cat.no. 24
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Anne Ryan, Look, 'The drawings of Ian Fairweather', pg. 14-15, Heidelberg, Dec 1997, 15 (colour illus.).
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INK: Whiteley and Others, Sydney, 2006. List of works
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