Title
The waterfall, Tasmania
1982
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1982
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 121.8 x 152.2 cm stretcher; 148.5 x 178.7 x 6.6 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. corner, blue oil "L REES 82".
- Credit
- Purchased 1982
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 243.1982
- Copyright
- © A&J Rees/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Lloyd Rees
Works in the collection
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About
"I have come to the point of looking at each picture as a new adventure. In some cases I have thrown turpentine over the whole picture and have let everything run together, and where I've wanted to get the feeling of sky I have used the ball of my hand, which I would not have done in the past. I worked rather furiously on these.
If there is one thing I want now it is for my paintings to be light right through. One of the great things the Impressionists did, probably not consciously, was to bring back what the great fresco schools of Italy had achieved, the sense of the painting being on a light background. This is what I am trying to do here, to make the lightness of the canvas the dominating thing."
- Lloyd Rees 1982Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2000
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Exhibition history
Shown in 8 exhibitions
Two centuries of Australian painting, a selection from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, 19 Apr 1986–15 Jun 1986
Lloyd Rees: lumiere du bout du monde, Printemps Haussmann, Paris, 20 May 1987–20 Jun 1987
Older Australian masters: an exhibition of works by major Australian artists executed in the later years of their careers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 16 Mar 1992–12 Apr 1992
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
Affinities: Brett Whiteley & Lloyd Rees (2001), The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 10 Feb 2001–08 Jul 2001
Whiteley & Rees: more affinities (2006), The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 03 Dec 2005–10 Apr 2006
Whiteley & Rees: more affinities (2006), New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, 29 Apr 2006–02 Jul 2006
Destination Sydney, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Manly, 05 Dec 2015–14 Feb 2016
Landscapes of Light: Lloyd Rees and Tasmania, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 07 Mar 2024–27 Oct 2024
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Bibliography
Referenced in 5 publications
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Edmund Capon AM, OBE and Jan Meek (Editors), Portrait of a Gallery, 'Australian 20th Century Art', pg. 71-89, Sydney, 1984, 79 (colour illus.).
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Deborah Edwards, Two centuries of Australian painting: a selection from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Introduction', pg. 8-14, Sydney, 1986, 47 (illus.). cat.no. 55
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Lou Klepac, Affinities: Brett Whiteley & Lloyd Rees, 'Introduction', pg. 2-4, Sydney, 2001, 8.
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Barry Pearce, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Earth and paradise', pg. 283-284, Sydney, 2000, 287 (colour illus.), 301.
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Barry Pearce., Older Australian masters: an exhibition of works by major Australian artists executed in the later years of their careers, 'Preface', Sydney, 1991, front cover (colour illus.). not paginated, no catalogue numbers
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