Ian Fairweather
(Scotland, Australia 29 Sep 1891–20 May 1974)
- Title
- Caresse de l'Astre
- Place of origin
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Bribie Island →
Queensland →
Australia
- Year
- (circa 1959)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- gouache on hardboard
- Dimensions
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73.6 x 97.8cm board; 82.8 x 108.0 x 6.3cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r. corner with monogram, black gouache "IF". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1959
- Accession number
- WA8.1959
- Copyright
- © Ian Fairweather/DACS. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
"Am sending today one package of paintings ... They are also (mostly) without titles - for they really refer (mostly) to nothing in particular - sort of soliloquies - I suppose will have to come under the heading of abstracts."
- Ian Fairweather 1959The spiritual aspect of the Chinese aesthetic, which encompasses the idea that a finished work should 'emerge' from the sheet, impressed Fairweather profoundly, and directed his method of making pictures.
'Caresse de l'astre' was painted at Bribie Island off the coast of Brisbane, where Fairweather settled permanently in 1953. Around the middle of the decade, his work began to evolve from clear figuration to being almost completely abstract by 1959-60.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2000
- Bibliography (6)
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Murray Bail (Australia, b.1941) (Author), Ian Fairweather, Sydney, 2009, 138 (colour illus.), 256. plate no. 119; cat.no. 160
Paula Dredge (Author), Margaret Sawicki (Australia) (Author), Steven Miller (Australia) (Author), Lindsay Parker (Australia, b.1939, d.2003) (Author), S.A. Parker Framing Works, Domain, 2004, 68 (illus.).
Murray Bail (Australia, b.1941) (Author), Mary Eagle (Australia, b.1944) (Author), Drusilla Modjeska (Author), Martin Armiger (Author), Joanna Capon (Australia) (Author), Pierre Ryckmans (Author), Fairweather, Australia, 1994, 109 (colour illus.), 143. plate no. 37
Editor Unknown (Editor), Art Gallery of New South Wales picturebook, Domain, 1972, 122 (colour illus.).
Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly Jul 1965, Jul 1965, 244.
Queensland Art Gallery (Australia, estab. 1895) (Curator), Fairweather: a retrospective exhibition, South Brisbane, Jun 1965. cat.no. 38; not paginated
- Exhibition history (9)
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Fairweather: a retrospective exhibition (1965-1966), Queensland Art Gallery, 03 Jun 1965–04 Jul 1965.
Fairweather: a retrospective exhibition (1965-1966), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 21 Jul 1965–22 Aug 1965.
Fairweather: a retrospective exhibition (1965-1966), National Gallery of Victoria [Swanston Street], 09 Sep 1965–10 Oct 1965.
Fairweather: a retrospective exhibition (1965-1966), National Gallery of South Australia, 26 Oct 1965–21 Nov 1965.
Fairweather: a retrospective exhibition (1965-1966), Western Australian Art Gallery, 09 Dec 1965–16 Jan 1966.
Fairweather: a retrospective exhibition (1965-1966), Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 10 Feb 1966–13 Mar 1966.
Fairweather (1994), Queensland Art Gallery, 01 Oct 1994–27 Nov 1994.
Fairweather (1994), National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], 17 Dec 1994–19 Feb 1995.
Fairweather (1994), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 22 Mar 1995–07 May 1995.
