Title
"Beauty bares her secret breast"
(1993)
Artist
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Details
- Date
- (1993)
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching, aquatint; black ink on white Velin Arches
- Edition
- 1/35
- Dimensions
- 59.4 x 39.2 cm platemark; 79.6 x 58.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., pencil "Arthur Boyd". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Australian Galleries 1994
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 649.1994
- Copyright
- © Reproduced with permission of Bundanon Trust
- Artist information
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Arthur Boyd
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Paintings and etchings by Arthur Boyd (1994):
- Australian Galleries, Sydney, Paddington 29 Nov 1993–12 Feb 1994
- Australian Galleries, Melbourne, Collingwood 18 Apr 1994–14 May 1994
Arthur Boyd (1993-4), David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, Sydney, 20 Dec 1993–31 Jan 1994
Arthur Boyd - "The Prodigal Son" and "The Writer and his Muse" (1996), Australian Galleries, Brisbane (Australia), Brisbane, 29 Nov 1996–14 Dec 1996
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Christopher Brennan, Poems (1913), Sydney, 1992, 55. NOTE: Refer to Part V of 'The twilight of disquietude': "and Beauty bares her secret breast,/ Hasten, O night with nuptial breath!/ hour remote from any face!"
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Barry Pearce, Janet McKenzie and Hendrik Kolenberg, Arthur Boyd: 30 paintings 1985-1994, 23 etchings 1993, Collingwood, 1994, 45 (illus.). image IV; cat.no. 34
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