Bailed Up
Bailed Up | |
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Artist | Tom Roberts |
Year | 1895 |
Medium | oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 134.5 cm × 182.8 cm (53.0 in × 72.0 in) |
Location | Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
Bailed Up is a
Composition
Roberts painted the work while staying at Newstead
Roberts found his location for the painting along the road between Newstead and Paradise, a neighbouring station. The location was remote, on a flat bend on an uphill stretch of the road, surrounded by "grass trees and a forest of tall gums."
Reception
Once complete, Roberts exhibited Bailed Up in Sydney and Melbourne. Critical reception to the work was mixed; with comment in the press about "the way the legs of the men, or the skin of the horses had been depicted" among other things. Pearce considered that "[p]erhaps unsatisfactory pictorial resolution was sensed" by collectors. Regardless, for a thirty-year period the painting failed to find a buyer.
In 1927, Roberts reworked the painting and the extent of this rework has been difficult to ascertain.
En route to an exhibition in Melbourne in 1956—part of the cultural program of the 1956 Summer Olympics— the painting fell off the back of a truck. The painting was damaged but successfully restored.[3]
Cultural references
Australian artist Ben Quilty reworked Bailed Up in his 2004 painting Gold Soil Wealth for Toil. It was acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.[4]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Bailed up". Collection. Art Gallery of New South Wales. Archived from the original on 29 October 2010. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- ^ Hawley, Janet (24 February 1996). "Tom Roberts Bailed Up". Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- ^ a b Brown, Warren. "Bailed Up". Rewind. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2 November 2010.
- ^ Ingram, Terry (7 October 2004). "Australian icons on show", Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
External links
- Tom Roberts' Bailed Up – National Film and Sound Archive
Further reading
- McCarthy, Patrick H (2006). Bailed Up: The story behind the painting. Watermark Press. ISBN 0-949284-72-6. Archived from the originalon 28 February 2011. Retrieved 22 October 2010.