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Details
- Other Title
- (Untitled), Ingres pad no.10
- Date
- 1983
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pastel on dark blue/grey paper
- Dimensions
- 30.7 x 47.2 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l., black ink "Gleeson 5.1.83".
- Credit
- Gift of Frank O'Keefe 1995
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 69.1995.3
- Copyright
- © Gleeson/O'Keefe Foundation
- Artist information
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James Gleeson
Works in the collection
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About
When he worked in pastel on black paper, as in this case, another dimension is added, suggesting night or something sombre.
'... I wanted to get a picture in glowing, rich autumnal colours that would convey the kind of anxiety/not anxiety, sort of melancholy of autumn. I always react fairly strongly to weather conditions. Autumn - never comfortable, particularly in England. It always conveys the ending of things to me. The idea of termination was perhaps the incentive behind this picture', Gleeson quoted in Renée Free's unpublished catalogue of James Gleeson's work.
Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, 'James Gleeson: drawings for paintings', Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2003, pg. 79.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
James Gleeson: drawings for paintings, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Apr 2003–15 Jun 2003
Fish in Australian art, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, 05 Apr 2012–26 Aug 2012
James Gleeson centenary: works from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 07 Nov 2015–27 Jan 2016
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, James Gleeson: drawings for paintings, Sydney, 2003, 79 (colour illus.). cat.no. 30c
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