Colour in Art: Revisiting 1919
- When 27 Aug - 27 Sep 2008
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Where
IVAN DOUGHERTY GALLERY
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Address
SELWYN ST, PADDINGTON NSW 2021
'Colour in Art – Revisiting 1919' contextualises the titular 1919 exhibition and the emergence of colour-music by bringing together paintings and related material from 1917 to the 1930s.
On 8 August 1919 at Gayfield Shaw’s Art Salon, 29 Elizabeth Street, Sydney the 'Colour in Art' exhibition introduced “…R de Mestre’s new theory of colour organisation as it applies to the Art of the Painter and, incidentally, to Interior Decoration, together with …R S Wakelin, already known in Sydney as an exponent of modern methods of colour expression”.1 Colour in Art was the first public showing of paintings and ‘colour organisations’ by Roland Wakelin and Roy de Maistre based on de Maistre’s colour-music theory.
Artists
Roy de Maistre
Roland Wakelin
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Curated by Annabel Pegus and Nick Waterlow
Supported by Powerhouse Museum and Gordon Darling Foundation

Public Program:
Symposium: Colour in Art – Revisiting 1919
10:30 am Saturday 23 August
Key Speakers, Nick Waterlow OAM, Annabel Pegus, Dr Heather Johnson, Dr Deborah Hart, Dr Jenny McFarlane, Niels Hutchison and Christopher Dean, each lead discussions surrounding key themes from the exhibition.
Floor Talk: Colour in Art – Revisiting 1919
10 am Thursday 11 September
Annabel Pegus, Christopher Dean and Michael Whitworth of Revisiting Ralph Baslon 1941, discuss the key themes of the kindred exhibitions.
Title Image: Roy de Maistre (Colour chart) c1919 oil on cardboard 30.5 x 40.5 cm Collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales Gift of the Executors of the artist’s Estate 1968 © Caroline de Mestre Walker Photograph: Diana Pannucio
Banner and Install Images: Installation view 'Colour in Art – Revisiting 1919 ', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, 2008.