Title
Sketch for 'La costa metamorphica'
1982
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Study for 'La Costa Metamorfica', Ingres pad no.8
- Date
- 1982
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- charcoal on pale green paper
- Dimensions
- 30.7 x 47.3 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l., charcoal "Gleeson 26.12.82".
- Credit
- Gift of Frank O'Keefe 1995
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 67.1995.4
- Copyright
- © Gleeson/O'Keefe Foundation
- Artist information
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James Gleeson
Works in the collection
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About
A study for this drawing is in the AGNSW's Gleeson 'Sketchbook 1', pg. 69 (35).
The painting from both these drawings was completed in 1984. For another related drawing see Lou Klepac's 'James Gleeson, landscape out of nature', Beagle Press, Sydney, 1987, pl. 61. Having built up a body of drawings since 1977, Gleeson turned to them in his search for studies suitable for paintings. This explains why some drawings precede some paintings by several years. Occasionally more than one drawing was used for various parts of a painting, as in this painting. In 'La costa metamorphica' the principal elements of both studies are combined in a more intense composition.
'Like a great fusion of different kinds of shapes brought together to form a strange coastal scene ...What interested me was how one could use shapes, forms, that individually, in little detail, suggest one thing, but when combined with other shapes, raise this doubt, this uncertainty in the mind, this feeling of not being sure of what you are looking at', Gleeson quoted in Renée Free's unpublished catalogue of James Gleeson's work
Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, 'James Gleeson: drawings for paintings', Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2003, pg. 72.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
James Gleeson: drawings for paintings, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Apr 2003–15 Jun 2003
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, James Gleeson: drawings for paintings, Sydney, 2003, 73 (colour illus.). cat.no. 27b
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