James Gleeson Australian, 1915-2008
Figure in a Psychoscape III, c.1980s

Oil on board
Signed (lower right)
24.5 × 19 cm (40 × 35 cm framed)

An artist, who also served on the board of the National Gallery of Australia, was a truly original painter. By the late 60’s, Many of his paintings had homoerotic undertones, something which reflected on Gleeson's own homosexuality. In keeping with the Freudian principles of surrealism, he composed works which, he said, symbolized the inner workings of the human mind.