02 Paintings of the Canals of Venice by Wendy Sharpe, with footnotes. #95

Wendy Sharpe (b. 1960)

Woman with Yellow Top (with Basilica di San Marco in the background)

Gouache Painting

35cm x 27cm

Private collection

Piazza San Marco or St. Mark’s Square is the main public square in Venice.  The Piazza is located in front of the great Byzantine church known as Basilica di San Marco. This Piazza is surrounded by shops, caffè’s and palazzi on three sides. According to local legend Napoleon called the Piazza San Marco “the drawing room of Europe.” More on Piazza San Marco

Wendy Sharpe, (b. 1960)

Tourists on the Canal 

Oil on canvas 

122.0 x 136.0 cm

Private collection

Wendy Sharpe (born 1960 in Sydney) is an Australian Artist who lives and works in Sydney and Paris. She counts among her influences paintings by Chaim Soutine and Max Beckmann. She is the winner of numerous major awards including the Archibald Prize, the Sulman Prize, the Portia Geach Memorial Prize and The Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize. She was commissioned by the Australian War Memorial as an official Australian War Artist in East Timor in 1999-2000 (the First woman since World War II). 

Sharpe undertook art studies in Sydney between 1978 and 1984 and held her first solo exhibition at the Nicholson Street Gallery in 1985. 

Renowned for her richly-coloured, carnivalesque and variously-perspectived works, she is particularly interested in the curvaceous, voluptuous forms of dancers, acrobats, drag artists and burlesque performers and the effects of stage, street and domestic lighting. More on Wendy Sharpe

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