Item - Untitled

ID UNSW C 1995/0695 CFA (088492)
Artist James GLEESON (1915 - 2008)
Title Untitled
Alternate Titles
Category Collage
Medium mixed media on paper
Materials black ink, photocopied paper, watercolour paper support
Edition Number
Measurements (cms)  
  Height 74.70
  Width 55.80
  Depth 0.00
  Other Frame: 99.5 x 79.5 x 4 cms
Marks/Inscriptions  
  Location within image at lower right edge
  Signed in black ink: Gleeson 76
Produced  
  When 1976
  Where Australia, NSW, Sydney
Style Surrealist
Subject Figures
Credit Line Presented by Speedac Enterprises Pty Ltd from the Agapitos/Wilson Collection and acquired from the College of Fine Arts Collection, 1995
Description/Remarks    Work depicts large central naked male with "lace" decoration (achieved by frottage), with a smaller naked male placed in the centre of the larger figure. An image of a large snail crawling up the side of the first figure; two kangaroo heads in background, all on a black and white airbrushed ground.
Exhibition History Curating the COFA Collection, Ivan Doughtery Gallery, Paddington (24/09/2009 - 24/10/2009)
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