Hans HEYSEN | (The clearing, early morning)

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

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‘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