Title
Crucifixion
1989
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Details
- Date
- 1989
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- earthenware
- Dimensions
- 33.8 cm diameter
- Signature & date
Signed and dated upper verso, blue glaze “brett/ whiteley/ 89”.
- Credit
- Bequest of Beryl Whiteley 2012
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 210.2012
- Copyright
- © Wendy Whiteley/Copyright Agency © Harriett Collard
- Artist information
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Brett Whiteley
Works in the collection
- Artist information
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Harriett Collard
Works in the collection
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About
From the mid 1970s Brett Whiteley collaborated with a number of Australian artist-potters, including Derek Smith and John Dellow, producing a variety of vases, plates and other ceramic vessels, drawn with calligraphic gestures in blue glaze over a white porcelain background. In these images, Whiteley depicted blossoms, trees, birds and other animals, lovers, as well as a series on the theme of the Crucifixion. This plate corresponds with a series of paintings and drawings produced in 1979–80 where the tortured figure of Christ is laid bare on the Cross, distended and malformed hands and fingers pierced with both drawn and real iron nails.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Brett Whiteley: Blue and White, The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 30 Apr 2022–27 Nov 2022