Title
Study for 'Sleep'
1948
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Sydney
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New South Wales
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Australia
- Date
- 1948
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pencil, pen and blue ink, sienna and black ink wash on sketchbook page
- Dimensions
- 14.0 x 22.6 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Frank O'Keefe 1993
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 173.1993
- Copyright
- © Gleeson/O'Keefe Foundation
- Artist information
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James Gleeson
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About
Gleeson utilised bricks as imagery very early, e.g. 'We inhabit the corrosive littoral of habit' 1940, 'Structural emblems of a friend' 1941 and 'The oracle' 1948. This drawing is for the reclining male figure in 'Sleep' painted in London. His desire to reveal what lies beneath the surface, a defining theme in Gleeson's work, was illustrated for him by exposed brickwork in bombed buildings in London after the war.
Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, 'James Gleeson: drawings for paintings', Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2003, pg. 47.
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Places
Where the work was made
Sydney
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
James Gleeson: drawings for paintings, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Apr 2003–15 Jun 2003
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, James Gleeson: drawings for paintings, Sydney, 2003, 47 (colour illus.). cat.no. 11
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Hendrik Kolenberg, James Gleeson: drawings for paintings, 'Introduction', pg. 11-16, Sydney, 2003, 13.
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