Hans
HEYSEN
Germany
1877
–
Australia
1968
Australia from 1884; Europe, England 1899-1903
(The clearing, early morning)
1919
Signed and dated lower right in watercolour "Hans Heysen/1919".
Not titled.
image
47.8 (h)
x 62.8 (w)
cm
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
NGA 1974.149
© Hans Heysen, Licensed by VISCOPY, Australia
‘The subtlety of a light-coloured tree against light was the problem. To get the weight of that tree—its character and strength—and yet retain the light surrounding it, playing around the tree. And a feeling of sunlight throughout the whole. I often wondered how I could retain a feeling of a very light trunk against a very light landscape, and make it look as if it were growing and solid ... Nature doesn’t deal in pure colours, out of a tube. The colours are mixed with atmosphere.’
Hans Heysen, 1966–67