Title
Fantasy
(circa 1916-circa 1917)
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Summer dance
- Place where the work was made
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London
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- Date
- (circa 1916-circa 1917)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 132.5 x 107.0 cm stretcher; 145.3 x 119.7 x 8.3 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. corner, black oil "SYDNEY LONG.". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased under the terms of the Florence Turner Blake Bequest 1971
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 50.1971
- Copyright
- © Estate of Sydney Long. Courtesy Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia
- Artist information
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Sydney Long
Works in the collection
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About
Sydney Long is the best-known proponent of Symbolist-inspired painting in Australia. Symbolism was an influential late 19th-century movement characterised by works expressing ideas, mood and dream states over material realities, and its artists often employed Art Nouveau’s sensuous arabesque forms as a means of expressing these metaphysical domains. 'Fantasy' uses the figure of Pan, the Greek mythological figure of a man with the hindquarters of a goat, alongside a group of dancing women in a stylised landscape with curving trees.
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Places
Where the work was made
London
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Exhibition history
Shown in 8 exhibitions
Sydney Long (1979), S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 22 Aug 1979–07 Nov 1979
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
Stampede of the Lower Gods: Classical Mythology in Australian Art 1890's-1930's, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Oct 1989–26 Nov 1989
Australian Collection Focus: Sydney Long: Pan, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Jun 2009–30 Aug 2009
Looking for faeries: The Victorian tradition, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 16 Oct 2010–28 Nov 2010
Australian Symbolism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 May 2012–22 Jul 2012
Sydney Long: the spirit of the land, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 17 Aug 2012–11 Nov 2012
Shaded, Dubbo Regional Art Gallery, Dubbo, 28 Aug 2017–03 Dec 2017
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Bibliography
Referenced in 12 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art from Australia: 2016 calender, Sydney, 2015, n.pag. (colour illus.). month of April
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Anna Clabburn., Looking for faeries: the Victorian tradition, 'The legacy of English fairy painting', Bendigo, 2010. Not paginated; List of works at the back.
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Deborah Edwards, Stampede of the Lower Gods: Classical Mythology in Australian Art, 'The Antipodean Arcady/ When Pan purloined Apollo's lyre', pg. 8-31, Sydney, Sep 1989, 14 (illus.), 64.
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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, 10, 27 (illus.). cat.no. 23
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Anne Gray, Sydney Long: the spirit of the land, 'The spirit of the land', pg. 45-70, Canberra, 2012, 45, 49, 50, 59, 60, 64, 68, 136 (colour illus.), 137. cat.no. 48
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Denise Mimmocchi, Look, 'Australian symbolism: An exhibition exploring the antipodean art of dreams', pg. 24-27, Sydney, Apr 2012, 26 (colour illus.).
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Denise Mimmocchi, Australian Collection Focus: Sydney Long - Pan, 'Sydney Long: Pan', pg. 1-12, Sydney, 2009, 8 (colour illus.).
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Denise Mimmocchi, Australian Symbolism: the art of dreams, 'Sydney Long: Arcadian myth and the decorative landscape', pg. 110-122, Sydney, 2012, 116, 121 (colour illus.), 146, 148 (colour illus.). image on pg.148 is a detail.
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William Splatt and Barbara Burton, 100 masterpieces of Australian painting, Adelaide, 1973, 124, 125 (colour illus.). plate no. 59
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Jill Sykes (Editor), Look, 'What's on elsewhere', pg. 44-45, Sydney, Jun 2012, 44 (colour illus.).
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Daniel Thomas, Art and Australia, 'Australian collection', pg. 52-62, Sydney, Jul 1972, 56 (colour illus.).
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Donald Williams, In our own image: the story of Australian art, Sydney, 1995, 72 (colour illus.).
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