Ernest Lee-Steere interviewed by Helen Topliss [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1926042
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Lee-Steere, Ernest, 1912-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1994
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 42 min.)
- Summary:
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Sir Ernest Lee-Steere, pastoralist, speaks about his aunt, Kate O'Connor, who became an artist, how his whole family went overseas in 1924 and visited Kate in Paris who showed them the Louvre; how she won an All-Australian Art prize at age 86; how her father was believed to have shot himself but this remains a mystery; in 1910 on a journey back to Ireland Kate suddenly declared that she was only going as far as Paris and there she stayed; her inclinations as a suffragette; her relative poverty while living in Paris as an artist; how she cultivated some wealthy friends; how she became a Post-Impressionist painter, and her unhappiness at having to return to Australia in 1955.
- Biography/History:
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Kate O'Connor, born in New Zealand in 1876, studied art at Perth Technical College then later in London and Paris. From 1910 she lived and exhibited her work in Paris, particularly at Luxembourg Gardens. Associated with the French painters Vuillard and de Segonzac, she was inspired by impressionism. In the 1920's she took up interior design and fabric painting selling to Paris shops and in 1927 designed for Grace Bros. and David Jones in Australia. Returned permanently to Perth in 1955 where she later died in 1968.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on Saturday Aug. 27, 1994 in Swanbourne, W.A.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Corrected transcript available (typescript, 21 leaves)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Topliss, Helen, 1946-, interviewer
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1994
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