watercolour, blue and yellow chalk, charcoal and pencil
Measurements
(a) 51.1 × 65.0 cm (image and sheet) (b) 51.1 × 65.1 cm (image and sheet) (a-b) 51.1 × 130.1 cm (overall)
Inscription
(a) inscribed in pencil c.l.: (bullet point) There are more pale pure blues in the water. / (bullet point) Sand spiut is paler. / (bullet point) Sky is v. pale plum, much paler than water, / warm colour below x more ultramarine also / at zenith. / (bullet point) resolve foreground/Background. Echo petrified / mangrove with smoke from (…illeg.) boat / or whirly whirly / sand obloids could also + energiser (b) inscribed in pencil l.l.: (upward arrow) / (…illeg.)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Gift of Sir Roderick Carnegie in memory of his wife Carmen through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2016
