Seated boy playing a pipe

Hans Heysen
Australia
8 October 1877 – 2 July 1968

Seated boy playing a pipe
1900-02
charcoal, white chalk on brown paper
Place made
Paris
Medium
charcoal, white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions
36.8 x 28.6 cm
Credit line
Bequest of the artist 1971
Accession number
711HH192
Signature and date
Not signed. Not dated.
Media category
Drawing
Collection area
Australian drawings
Copyright
© Chris Heysen
Image credit
Photo: Stewart Adams

  • WALL LABEL: Hans Heysen: The Creative Journey, 1992

     

    Heysen probably made this figure drawing at Calarossi’s Academy, which he attended most evenings during his stay in Paris from 1900 to 1902.  There he did two to three hours of drawing from the costumed figure.

     

    This figure was later incorporated in his illustration for the poem ‘The Magic Lute’, which appeared in The Lone Hand magazine in May 1908.

     

    Julie Robinson, Senior Curator, Prints, Drawings & Photographs

  • Hans Heysen: The creative journey

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 28 August 1992 – 10 January 1993
    Brisbane City Hall Art Gallery, 19 June 1993 – 1 August 1993
    Newcastle Art Gallery, 15 October 1993 – 28 November 1993
    Art Gallery of Western Australia, 12 December 1993 – 26 January 1994
    Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, 17 February 1994 – 27 March 1994
    Moree Plains Art Gallery, 9 April 1994 – 22 May 1994
    Riddoch Arts and Cultural Centre, 3 June 1994 – 17 July 1994