James Gleeson
Paintings from the 60's & 70's
26th May - 21st June 2007
SOLD Apollo at the gates - c.1960's, Oil on Board, 10 x 10cm
James Gleeson is recognised as one of Australia leading and most important surrealists. During the 1960’s and 70’s he produced a series of small paintings depicting his distinctive imagery, that of an abstract, organic landscape, the percussor to the ‘psychoscape’ and the use of male nudes – well muscled men, in their prime, ideals of beauty and celebrations of masculinity.
These little paintings exude an almost prophetic atmosphere of ethereal light, a sort of ‘and God created Man’ statement – and yet they seem to also question the nature of reality.
SOLD Climb to Silence - 1974, Oil on Board, 40 x 50cm
SOLD Figure in a landscape, Oil on Board, 10 x 7cm
SOLD Figure in a Psychoscape (Back View), Oil on Board, 15 x 12.5cm
SOLD Figure in a Psychoscape (Tiny Figure) - c.1970's, Oil on Board, 15 x 12.5cm
SOLD Figure in a Psychoscape (Standing) - c.1970's, Oil on Board, 15 x 12.5cm
SOLD Figure with drawn knee, Oil on Board, 14.5 x 12.2cm
Figure in a Psychoscape (1 large & 1 tiny figure), Oil on Board, 14 x 12cm
SOLD Figure with hands out to side - c.1970's, Oil on Board, 19.5 x 15.5cm
Figure in a Psychoscape with Doppleganger, Oil on Board, 15 x 12.5cm
Heracles & Antaeus II, Oil on Board, 15 x 12.5cm
SOLD Labyrinth, Oil on Board, 30 x 21.5cm
SOLD Nude in Landscape, Oil on Board, 21 x 15cm
Odysseus at the gates of Hades, Oil on Board, 15 x 11cm
SOLD Orpheus, Oil on Board, 21 x 30cm
Psychoscape c.1970's, Oil on Board, 12 x 10cm
Summer - 1966, Oil on Board, 44 x 69cm
The Madness of Heracles, Oil on Board, 15 x 12.5cm
The Searcher, Oil on Board, 15 x 12.5cm
The Wave, Oil on Board, 20 x 15cm
Totems in Arcadia - 1981, Oil on Composition Board, 51 x 40.5cm
SOLD Two figures in a psychoscape, Oil on Board, 20 x 14.5cm
SOLD Youths, Oil on Board, 20 x 14.5cm
The Fate of Atlas, Oil on Canvas, 53 x 74cm
The Apotheosis of Heracles - 1967, Oil on Canvas, 122 x 92cm
SOLD Untitled (Man on Horseback), Oil on Canvas Board, 39 x 28.5cm
SOLD Wisdom is the Ability to Interpret Knowledge - 1976, Mixed Media on Paper, 70 x 40.5cm
SOLD Rene Descarte's Cognito Ergo Sum - 1978, Mixed Media on Paper, 70 x 40.5cm
SOLD In a Fleeting World - 1976, Mixed Media on Paper, 61.5 x 47.5cm
You're in a Psychoscape - c.1960s, Oil on Board, 15 x 12.5cm
Study for a Diverse Congregation - 2003, Charcoal & Paper Collage, 24 x 29.5cm
Donald Friend
Watercolours, drawings and etchings
29th April - 27th May 2007
Bali, Watercolour and Ink on Paper Laid on Board, 30 x 48cm
Donald Friend was a prolific artist whose well known studies of young male nudes, mostly set in exotic locations are in watercolour, gouache, inks and some oils. They are exquisite. This exhibition also includes many well known etchings, which indicate his brilliant draughtsmanship.
Beach Boys, Gouache on Paper, 78 x 56cm
Blake, Sepia Etching 20/50, 15 x 10cm
Out of My Window - 1954, Oil on Canvas, 40 x 50cm
Nude Study - 1952, Ink & Wash on Paper, 30 x 49cm
Boy with Banksias, Etching - Blue, 37 x 50cm
Bali, Screenprint 196/200, 62 x 49cm
Chez Donald Friend - 1987, Etching 31/50, 30 x 22cm
Profile, Coloured Etching 35/40, 25 x 25cm
Russell, Etching 30/50, 15 x 10cm
Happy Birthday, Etching A/P, 22 x 30cm
No Room at the Inn, Etching 34/50, 23 x 30cm
Beach Bikies, Etching 18/50, 15 x 10cm
Habib, Etching 19/50, 15 x 10cm
Horse Riders, Etching 35/50, 15 x 10cm
Musician - Accordian, Sepia Etching 29/50, 15 x 10cm
Musician - Cellist, Sepia Etching 44/50, 15 x 10cm
Musician - Flautist, Sepia Etching First State 8/10, 15 x 10cm