(Two Philippine children)
1935
Medium
oil on plywood
Measurements
44.9 × 50.9 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Joseph Brown Collection. Presented through the NGV Foundation by Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE, Honorary Life Benefactor, 2004
© Ian Fairweather/DACS, London. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
Gallery location
Gallery 20
Level 3, NGV Australia
About this work
Following studies in the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Ian Fairweather served as a Lieutenant in the First World War, where he was imprisoned and detained in a German POW camp. After his release in 1818, he commenced studies at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. During the 1930s and 1940s Fairweather travelled the world extensively, living a nomadic life. He was often living in poverty as he painted in the different cities and islands he visited – Shanghai, Peking, Bali, the Philippines and Melbourne. The last part of his life he spent in a hut that he built on Bribie Island, Queensland. En route from Melbourne to Shanghai in 1934, Fairweather landed at Davao on Mindanao Island in the Philippines and lived there for more than three months.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Inscription
inscribed in pencil l.l.: IF (underlined)
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.l.: PAINTED IN 1935 BY IAN FAIRWEATHER
Accession Number
2004.169
Department
Australian Painting
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Subjects (general)
Abstract Art Human Figures Portraits
Subjects (specific)
children (people by age group) colours (hues or tints) costume (mode of fashion) shape (form attribute) women (female humans)