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• Auction House:
  Leonard Joel
• Sale Name:
  Fine Art Auction
• Sale Date:
  02 Dec 2013 ~ 6pm
• Lot #:
  101
• Lot Description:
  James Gleeson
  (1915-2008)
  Landscape with Self-Portrait in Parenthesis 1994
  oil on Belgian linen
  179 x 154cm
  signed and dated 'Gleeson '94' lower left
• Provenance:
  Purchased Watters Gallery, Sydney 1994 Private collection, Sydney
• Exhibited:
  James Gleeson: Paintings from the Past Decade, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 9 September-3 October 1994 (label attached verso) 30th Anniversary Summer Exhibition, Watters Gallery, Sydney, November 1994 James Gleeson, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland, 24 September-24 October 2004 James Gleeson: Paintings from the 1960s and 1970s, Wagner Art Gallery, Sydney, 26 May-21 June 2007 (on loan)
• References:
  Free, R., James Gleeson: Images from the Shadows, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1996 revised edition, p. 129, pl. 46 (illus.)
• Notes:
  In everyday speech, the word 'surreal' is conventionally used to describe the bizarre, the unusual and the strange. While these adjectives are often applicable to the paintings of James Gleeson, the literal meaning of surreal, consisting of 'sur', meaning above or beyond and 'real', the meaning of which is obvious, is often forgotten.
• Estimate:
  A$60,000 - 80,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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