Title
(Colour music)
(circa 1934)
Artist
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Details
- Other Titles
- Colour music
Colour Music - Date
- (circa 1934)
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- gouache on piano roll
- Dimensions
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dimensions variable
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a - Painted roll, 31 x 1606 cm, 1606.0 cm is the total length of the roll from the metal hook at beginning to/and including the spool end. The painted (coloured) section of the roll is 485.5 cm in length.
b - Empty (unpainted) roll, 31 x 1616 cm, The 100mm difference between the length of the 2 rolls is due to the fact the painted roll has more paper glued on to the roll core than the empty roll.
- Credit
- Gift of Sir John Rothenstein in memory of the artist 1969
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- WA2.1969.a-b
- Copyright
- © Roy de Maistre Estate
- Artist information
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Roy de Maistre
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Project 14 - Roy de Maistre: 1894-1968 (1976), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Sep 1976–04 Oct 1976
Colour in Art - revisiting 1919, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Paddington, 21 Aug 2008–27 Sep 2008
Sydney Moderns, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Jul 2013–07 Oct 2013
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Bibliography
Referenced in 11 publications
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Deborah Edwards, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Moderns', pg. 103-104, Sydney, 2000, 107 (colour illus.), 301.
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Elizabeth Gertsakis, Sydney moderns: art for a new world, 'Roy de Maistre: colour-music and the Verbrugghens', pg. 46-49, Sydney, 2013, 49 (colour illus., detail), 58-59 (colour illus., detail), 312. four details from one piano roll
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Niels Hutchison, Sydney moderns: art for a new world, 'De Maistre decoded', pg. 56-63, Sydney, 2013, 58-59 (colour illus.).
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Niels Hutchison, Symposium papers: Colour in art - revisiting 1919 & R-Balson, 'Colour-Music – Decoding de Maistre: The colour-music code', pg.26-29, Sydney, 2008, 26-29. NOTE: General reference
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Annabel Pegus and Nick Waterlow, Colour in art: Revisiting 1919, Sydney, 2008, 53 (colour illus.).
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Daniel Thomas AM (Curator), Project 14: Roy de Maistre 1894-1968, Sydney, 1976, (illus.). cat.no. 50
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Daniel Thomas., The Sydney Morning Herald, 'Painting's influence on literature', Sydney, 14 Sep 1976.
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Analiese Treacy, Look, 'On a roll: birth and survival of an extraordinary artwork', pg. 12-13, Sydney, Sep 2013, 12 (colour illus., detail), 13 (colour illus., detail).
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Editor Unknown (Editor), The Australian financial review, 'De Maistre - not a discordant note among those who mattered', pg. 28, Sydney, 26 Sep 1974, 28. General reference
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly, 'Acquisitions for 1969', pg. 538, Sydney, Jul 1970, 542 (illus.). plate no. 22
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Sotheby's Melbourne: Important Australian Art, 24 November 2008, Australia, 2008, 106. NOTE: Related work titled 'Arrested movement from a trio'
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