Title
Two studies of a male nude (Wolfgang Cardamatis), standing and seated
circa 1935-1940
Artist
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Details
- Date
- circa 1935-1940
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pencil on paper
- Dimensions
- 38.0 x 55.9 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l. and l.r., pencil "GILLILAND 1938".
- Credit
- Gift of the artist, accessioned 2013
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 74.2013
- Copyright
- © Estate of Hector Gilliland
- Artist information
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Hector Gilliland
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About
Hector Gilliland studied at East Sydney Technical College in the 1930s. His work became increasingly abstract from the late 1950s after he returned from a period in Europe and the UK, where he responded particularly to the work of Ben Nicholson, Victor Pasmore and Alan Davie – he was a founding member of the Sydney Nine (1961) for example.
These drawings were made by the artist while he was a student at East Sydney Tech – as a student of night classes between 1935-39 and in 1940 when he sat in on life drawing classes.
The model for the male nude s is Wolfgang Cardamatis, an artist, cartoonist and designer who modelled in Sydney and Melbourne for a number of artists including James Gleeson, David Strachan, George Bell and Russell Drysdale.
