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Title
Nine facts or the truth of dreams
1985
Artist
Chris Fortescue
Australia
1953 -
Details
Date
1985
Materials used
nine Polaroid photographs
Dimensions
nine photographs: 61.5 x 51.5 cm each frame :
a - (red chair back); 49.5 x 59.5 cm; sight
b - (red chair back left/ table top centre/ yellow cha; 49.5 x 59.5 cm; sight
c - (yellow chair back); 49 x 59.4 cm; sight
d - (red chair seat); 49.3 x 59.5 cm; sight
e - (red chair back left/ table leg centre/ yellow cha; 49.4 x 59.4 cm; sight
f - (yellow chair seat); 49.5 x 59.5 cm; sight
g - (red chair leg and foot rung); 49.3 x 59.5 cm; sight
h - (red chair legs left/ table leg centre/ yellow cha; 49.5 x 59.5 cm; sight
i - (yellow chair leg and foot rung); 49.5 x 59.4 cm; sight
Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
Credit
Gift of Polaroid Australia Pty Ltd 1988
Location
Not on display
Accession number
269.1988.a-i
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Chris Fortescue
Nine facts or the truth of dreams
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Exhibition history
In Full View, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 16 Jul 1986–30 Aug 1986
Works from the Photography Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 10 Feb 1989–15 May 1989
Contemporary Colour Photographs from the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Jul 1991–22 Sep 1991
Great gifts, great patrons, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Aug 1994–19 Oct 1994
Referenced in 2 publications
Bibliography
In Full View, Sydney, 1986, 11 (colour illus.), 34, cover (detail colour illus.).
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Great gifts, great patrons: an exhibition celebrating private patronage of the Gallery, Sydney, 1994. no catalogue numbers