Title
Comedy and Tragedy: "Sic vita"
1892
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1892
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- bronze
- Dimensions
- 73.7 cm height
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1920
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 761
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Sir Alfred Gilbert
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Pre-Raphaelites and Olympians. Selected works of Victorian art from the John and Julie Schaeffer and the Art Gallery of New South Wales collections, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Apr 2001–09 Sep 2001
Archie Plus, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 26 Sep 2020–07 Mar 2021
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Bibliography
Referenced in 10 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales picturebook, Sydney, 1972, 39 (colour illus.).
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Susan Beattie, The New Sculpture, London, 1983, 162. Tate version illus.
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Richard Dorment, Alfred Gilbert, London, 1986. cats 23, 24
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Richard Dorment, Victorian High Renaissance, Manchester, 1978, 180. no 97 a,b
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Lavinia Handley-Read, Apollo, 'Alfred Gilbert: a new assessment', London, 22-27 (illus.). vol. 169
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Joseph Hatton, The Art Journal, 'Alfred Gilbert', London, 1903, 11-12 (illus.).
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Noel Hutchinson, (unknown). note on Comedy and Tragedy
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Peter Laverty (Editor), Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly, Sydney, Jan 1972, (illus.).
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Isabel McAllister, Alfred Gilbert, London, 1929, 88.
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M.H. Spielmann, British sculpture and sculptors of today, 1901, 78.
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