Title
Quai des Grands Augustins from our window, Paris
1966
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Paris II
- Place where the work was made
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Paris
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France
- Date
- 1966
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pen and black ink, carbon pencil, watercolour on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 11.3 x 20.3 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Alan and Jancis Rees 2002
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 234.2002
- Copyright
- © A&J Rees/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Lloyd Rees
Works in the collection
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About
In 1966-67, Lloyd and Marjory Rees visited Europe for the third time. In October 1966 and again in March 1967, Rees was in Paris, and this and two other small drawings [also in the Gallery's collection] are from a sketchbook used during the trip, which was one of his most rewarding experiences of the city. On earlier visits in 1923 and 1953, he had felt the experience of the First and Second World Wars had cast a blight over the city. But, in 1966, he found 'confirmation of my early idealism. Great areas are now the gleaming city I imagined it to be... All over the city buildings are being restored even in narrow bye [sic] streets.'
(Rees letter to Alan and Jan Rees, 31 October 1966, Rees family collection)The pleasures of this visit is reflected in the concentrated clarity of theses sketches, which depict a pale grey day, shiny as polished pewter. The artist's palette of soft colours suggests that the season is autumn or
winter, and an atmosphere of misty light surrounds the solid inked-in shapes of bulidings, boats and bridges and dissolves the masses of foliage in the avenues of trees.excerpt from exhibition catalogue, 'Lloyd Rees: Coming home', Rockhampton Regional Art Gallery, 2000
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Places
Where the work was made
Paris
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Rees - Whiteley, On the Road to Berry:
- Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne 13 Jul 1993–05 Sep 1993
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 17 Sep 1993–14 Nov 1993
Lloyd Rees Drawings (1995-96):
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 09 Mar 1995–14 May 1995
- Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst 09 Jun 1995–16 Jul 1995
- Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat 01 Sep 1995–15 Oct 1995
- Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane 04 Nov 1995–01 Jan 1996
- Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Launceston 24 Jan 1996–11 Mar 1996
Lloyd Rees: coming home (1999-2000):
- Rockhampton Museum of Art, Rockhampton 28 May 1999–01 Jul 1999
- Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville 17 Sep 1999–31 Oct 1999
- Logan Art Gallery, Logan Central 19 Nov 1999–29 Dec 1999
- Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba 06 Jan 2000–06 Feb 2000
- Moree Plains Gallery, Moree 11 Feb 2000–26 Mar 2000
- Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst 01 Apr 2000–05 Jun 2000
- Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong 15 Jun 2000–13 Jul 2000
- Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Australia 11 Aug 2000–14 Sep 2000
- Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart 04 Oct 2000–12 Nov 2000
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
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Lou Klepac, Lloyd Rees drawings, Sydney, 1978, 56 (illus.). cat.no. 46
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Hendrik Kolenberg and Edmund Capon AM, OBE, Lloyd Rees Drawings - Centenary Retrospective, Sydney, 1995, 77 (illus.). cat.no. 84; titled 'Paris II'
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Alan Rees, Jancis Rees and Sue Smith, Lloyd Rees coming home, Rockhampton, 1999, 38 (illus.). cat.no. 19
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Jill Sykes (Editor), Look, Sydney, Oct 2004, 50 (colour illus.).
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