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Details
- Other Title
- Meyerhold's last October
- Date
- 1967
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- diptych: synthetic polymer paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- left panel 243.7 x 152.4 x 4.0 cm stretcher; right panel 244.0 x 152.5 x 4.0 cm stretcher; 244.0 x 305.0 x 4.0 cm stretcher overall
- Signature & date
Signed bot. c. verso left panel [part a], blue synthetic polymer paint "Dick Watkins".
Signed l.r. corner verso right panel [part b] on stretcher, blue synthetic polymer paint "Dick WATKINS".
Dated l.l. corner verso right panel [part b] on stretcher, blue synthetic polymer paint "67".- Credit
- Gift of Garry Pursell 2008
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 53.2008.a-b
- Copyright
- © Dick Watkins/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Dick Watkins
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Dick Watkins: recent paintings (1967), Central Street Gallery, Sydney, 08 Aug 1967–Unknown
The field, National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 21 Aug 1968–28 Sep 1968
The field, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Oct 1968–24 Nov 1968
Australian Collection Focus: Tackling THE FIELD, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 05 Sep 2009–29 Nov 2009
The Field Revisited, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 27 Apr 2018–26 Aug 2018
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Bibliography
Referenced in 10 publications
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Christopher Allen, The Weekend Australian, 'Hard work: A new show reminds us of the limitations of colour-field abstraction', pg. 12-13, Canberra, 17 Oct 2009-18 Oct 2009, 13. Focus room 'Tackling the field' exhibition review.
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Central Street Gallery (Compilator), Dick Watkins: recent paintings, Sydney, 1967, n.pag.. cat.no. 1; titled 'Meyerhold's last October'; priced $950
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Barbara Dowse, Dick Watkins in context: an exhibition from the collection of the National Gallery, Canberra, 1992, 13.
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Sylvia Harrison., Art and Australia (Vol. 25, No. 4), 'Sydney pop and social internationalism in the 1960s', Sydney, Winter 1988, 502.
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Elwyn Lynn, The field, 'An important academy' by Royston Harpur; Untitled essay, pg. 84-85, Melbourne, 1968, 78 (illus.), 85, 89, 93. cat.no. 71
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Terry Smith, Other voices: critical journal [vol. 1, no. 1], 'Color-form painting: Sydney 1965-70', pg. 6-17, Sydney, Jun 1970-Jul 1970, 12.
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Terry Smith, Transformations in Australian art: The twentieth century - Modernism and Aboriginality [Volume Two], St Leonards, 2002, 105.
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David Thomas, Important Australian + International Fine Art, 'Dick Watkins', pg. 26, Melbourne, 29 Nov 2007, 26, 27 (colour illus.). lot no. 8
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Natalie Wilson, Look, 'THE FIELD: Landmark Australian exhibition', pg. 12, Sydney, Sep 2009, 12 (colour illus.).
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Natalie Wilson, Tackling THE FIELD, 'Tackling The Field', pg. 1-29, Sydney, 2009, cover (colour illus.), 9, 10, 23 (colour illus.), 24.
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