Patrick heron

As Mel Gooding wrote, in his extensive monograph published in 1994, Heron was ‘a visual inventor of the first rank, an originator of images and a colourist of genius’. The paintings shown in this exhibition illustrate Heron’s early development between the years 1945 and 1955. His experimentation with the colour,...

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SYDNEY: 9 FEB: 1990

This is the fourth in a series of posthumous exhibitions at Waddington Galleries tracing the career of Patrick Heron. This exhibition shows the development of his gouaches over three decades: from his softer edged shapes in the 1960s to the looser, more lyrical style of the early 1990s. Heron wrote...

As Mel Gooding wrote, in his extensive monograph published in 1994, Heron was ‘a visual inventor of the first rank, an originator of images and a colourist of genius’. The paintings shown in this exhibition illustrate Heron’s early development between the years 1945 and 1955. His experimentation with the colour,...

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by Patrick Heron oil on canvas 1949 © Patrick Heron/ DACS 2021

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