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
Paintings and etchings by Arthur Boyd (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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