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Details
- Other Title
- The acrobat ['John Perceval's angels' exhibition, 1958]
- Date
- 1958
- Media categories
- Sculpture , Ceramic
- Materials used
- earthenware, sang-de-boeuf glaze
- Dimensions
- 28.0 x 29.0 x 17.5 cm
- Signature & date
Signed and dated on left buttock, incised "Perceval 1958".
- Credit
- Purchased 1958
- Location
- South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- 9811
- Copyright
- © Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Artist information
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John Perceval
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
John Perceval's angels, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 02 Sep 1958–12 Sep 1958
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1958, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 Feb 1959–08 Mar 1959
20th-Century galleries, ground level (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales picturebook, Sydney, 1972, 141 (colour illus.).
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Maudie Palmer (Editor), Encounters with Australian modern art, South Yarra, 2008, 70 (colour illus.). NOTE: Related work reproduced. Titled 'Angel Barry in heaven', 1957, private collection.
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Donald Richardson, Art & Design in Australia, South Yarra, 1995, 15, 60, 80, 83, 137, 140, 145, 163, 243.. PS Worksheet 248
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Natalie Wilson, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Out of Melbourne: realisms and mythologies', pg. 163-164, Sydney, 2000, 164, 180 (colour illus.), 301.
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