Yellow
(1970-1973)
- Medium
- synthetic polymer paint on composition board
- Measurements
- (a-b) 213.5 × 244.0 cm (overall)
- Place/s of Execution
- Sydney, New South Wales
- Inscription
- (b) inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.r.: No. 71 F.W
- Accession Number
- 2011.336.a-b
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Loti Smorgon AO and Victor Smorgon AC, 2011
© Estate of Tony Tuckson/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Gallery 12
Level 2, NGV Australia - About this work
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As deputy director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Tony Tuckson was reticent about drawing attention to his activities as a painter, and held only two solo exhibitions during his lifetime. Produced towards the end of his life, this painting was included in the second of these showings at Watters Gallery, Sydney in 1973. The scale of the panels used by Tuckson demanded an intensely physical way of working and the broad brush strokes of white paint over yellow, with splashes and dribbles of red and black, speak of the frenetic energy of its creation.
- Subjects (general)
- Nonrepresentational Art
- Subjects (specific)
- brush strokes yellow colours
