Title
An interesting chapter
(circa 1911)
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- The reading
- Date
- (circa 1911)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 99.5 x 89.5 cm stretcher; 115.7 x 105.8 x 8.5 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. corner, brown oil "MELDRUM". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1914
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 681
- Copyright
- © Estate of Max Meldrum
- Artist information
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Max Meldrum
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Society of Artists Spring Exhibition (1914), Society Rooms, Queen Victoria Markets, Sydney, 18 Nov 1914 -
Australia's 150th anniversary celebrations: All Australian art exhibition (1938), National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Jan 1938–Apr 1938
Loan exhibition of paintings by Max Meldrum, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Mar 1947–16 Apr 1947
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Lionel Lindsay, 150 years of Australian art, Sydney, 1938. cat.no. 796 [Gallery No. 7]
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Peter Perry and John Perry, Max Meldrum and associates: their art, lives and influences, 'Establishment of painting theory and school of painting', pg. 25-31, Victoria, 1996, 24 (illus.), 25, 129. titled 'Contes (Storytime) or (An interesting chapter)'; dated c.1911
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Sydney Ure Smith, Bertram Stevens and Charles Lloyd Jones (Editors), Art in Australia [vol. 1, no. 8], Sydney, 1920, (colour illus.). This work is titled 'The reading'.
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