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In a letter to friends Joe and Lorraine Haines dated 14 October 1966, Rees wrote:
"We found on returning to Athens we had about 4 days wait for this ship to take us back to Venice & so spent two of them on a trip to Delphi. Hotel built on edge of precipice - one entered at top & went down 6 floors in lift. Our room with balcony looked down into the immense gorge with its river winding among the mountains to the Gulf of Corinth.
On the floor of the valley [there is] supposedly the largest olive grove in Europe (two million trees!) And towering above was Mount Parnassus. What a site! In fact what a genius the Greeks had for their temples & their theatres. Imagine the superstitious going to Delphi to consult the Oracle having their bones turned to jelly when faced with such awesomeness. And then believing everything they were told!!"
from Hendrik Kolenberg, "Lloyd Rees in Europe", AGNSW, Sydney, 2002, pg. 96
Details
Other Title
Hillside in Greece
Date
1966
Materials used
pen, black ink, carbon pencil and watercolour
Dimensions
11.3 x 20.2 cm sheet (irreg.)
Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
Credit
Gift of Alan & Jancis Rees 1997
Location
Not on display
Accession number
215.1997.6
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Lloyd Rees
Delphi
Place
Where the work was made
Greece
Shown in 1 exhibition
Exhibition history
Lloyd Rees in Europe (2002-04):
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 09 Feb 2002–28 Apr 2002
- Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst 13 Jun 2003–27 Jul 2003
- Albury Regional Gallery, Albury 06 Feb 2004–07 Mar 2004
- Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Launceston 07 May 2004–27 Jun 2004
- Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart 09 Sep 2004–17 Oct 2004
- Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington 26 Oct 2004–05 Dec 2004
Referenced in 1 publication
Bibliography
Hendrik Kolenberg and Patricia James, Lloyd Rees in Europe, Sydney, 2002, 96, 97 (colour illus.). cat.no. 73