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Title

They mute horses don't they?

1974

Artist

Graeme Peebles

Australia

22 Jan 1955 –

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  • Details

    Date
    1974
    Media category
    Print
    Materials used
    colour mezzotint on ivory wove paper
    Edition
    21/60
    Dimensions
    20.2 x 58.5 cm platemark; 42.7 x 68.6 cm sheet
    Signature & date

    Signed and dated l.r., pencil "Graeme Peebles 79".

    Credit
    Gift of Graham Blondel 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    288.2011
    Artist information
    Graeme Peebles

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  • About

    Peebles was born in Melbourne and studied printmaking at RMIT 1973-75, with further studies in Italy and England in 1976-77, specifically on the mezzotint. He has exhibited prints and has taught printmaking in Melbourne since 1977. He is Australia's foremost practitioner of mezzotint, the first of which he made in 1973. His early works are principally still life, the object drawn directly on to the plate; often there are metaphorical links; for example he often uses fruit whose shapes lend themselves to innuendo.

  • Bibliography

    Referenced in 1 publication

    • Anne Gérard-Austin, Look, 'The exquisite and erstwhile mezzotints of a contemporary master', pp34-35, Sydney, Nov 2012, 34.

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