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Luminous large-scale paintings by renowned artist Lloyd Rees are on show together for the first time, in an exhibition revealing an inspired late period influenced by the landscapes of Tasmania. Rees, who died in 1988, was one of the leading Australian landscape artists of the 20th century, influencing generations of artists including the likes of Brett Whiteley and John Olsen. The body of work he made in Tasmania is not widely known, but it's markedly different to the rest of his oeuvre (he was best known as a Sydney painter) including the largest and most impressionistic paintings Rees had ever executed.

The first exhibition to bring together these artworks, Lands of Light: Lloyd Rees and Tasmania, is on show at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart. Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion. The paintings represent a spectacular late flowering of creativity, according to author Peter Timms, and no less than a "triumphant final act" for one of Australia's greatest artists.



Rees began visiting Tasmania regularly in 1967 after his son moved to Hobart, and finally moved south in the 1980s as his health and eyesight deteriorated. The artist was searching for fresh inspiration during this period and found it in a different quality of colour and light, and a move towards what he described as "almost abstract" painting. Like J.

M.W Turner 150 years earlier, Rees suffered from failing eyesight, with light and atmosphere becoming hi.

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