Estate of the Artist
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James Gleeson
Delenda est Carthago, etc., 1983
oil on linen
100.50 x 171.50
signed and dated l.r.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
James Gleeson: Paintings, Watters Gallery, 7- 24 November, 1984, no. 3;
The Challenge of the Landscape, Watters Gallery, 7 - 18 May, 1985, no 18 and touring to New England Regional Art Museum, 6 Dec 1986 - 8 Feb 1987;
The Rudy Komon Gallery Retrospective, Artmet (at 124 Jersey Road) April-May 1988, no. 18;
James Gleeson, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 13 November - 6 December 2014, no. 1;
Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 31 March - 23 April, 2016, no. 2
Note:
Unmitigated human-induced climate change could potentially see the planet warm by more than 4oC by the end of the century. In Australia, parts of the country like central Australia could warm as much as 5.3oC on average by 2090. In Melbourne, the number of days over 40oC could quadruple by the end of the century, causing extreme heat stress to humans, wildlife and plants. Warming of this rate and magnitude is a threat to our civilisation. The unimaginable can come to pass, as it has in the past. The title of this painting is a quote from Cato the Elder who famously repeated the saying “Carthage must be destroyed” in the Senate and thus alludes to Rome’s total, and final, annihilation of Carthage in 149 BC. According to the ancient historian Polybius, the conquering Roman general, Scipio Aemilianus, famously wept as he likened the event to the mythical destruction of Troy and to the eventual future end he could foresee for Rome. (Climarte)
Further works by the Artist
No 296
James Gleeson
2008
charcoal, paper collage, powdered graphite, pastel on paper, 29.60 x 41.90
Price: $2,200
(Yawning gulf)
James Gleeson
1980
charcoal, pastel, watercolour on Arches paper, 70.00 x 50.00
Poem - rocketing rim-girt
James Gleeson
1976
ink wash, pen and ink and collage on paper, 75.00 x 55.00
SOLD
(Landscape)
James Gleeson
1980
charcoal, pastel, watercolour on Arches paper, 70.50 x 51.30
Price: $5,500
(Kneeling Nude – Study)
James Gleeson
c. 1945
charcoal and conte on paper, 50.00 x 37.00
SOLD
(Mutant figure in a landscape)
James Gleeson
1980
charcoal, pastel, watercolour on Fabriano paper, 50.80 x 70.20
Price: $5,500
No 292
James Gleeson
2008
charcoal, paper collage, powdered graphite, pastel on paper, 29.60 x 41.90
Study for "An Event on the Faultline"
James Gleeson
2005
charcoal & collage on paper, 38.00 x 51.50
No 296
James Gleeson
2008
charcoal, paper collage, powdered graphite, pastel on paper, 29.60 x 41.90
No 293
James Gleeson
2008
charcoal, paper collage, powdered graphite, pastel on paper, 29.60 x 41.90
Since its establishment in 1984, the Charles Nodrum Gallery’s exhibition program embraces a diversity of media and styles - from painting, sculpture & works on paper to graphics and photography; from figurative, geometric, gestural, surrealist & social comment to installation & conceptually based work.