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43 Group

A Chronicle of Fifty Years in the Art of Sri Lanka

Neville Weereratne

Appendix B

Catalogue of the First Exhibition

November 1943

Catalogue of an exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculpture by the ‘43 Group, 20 to 28 November 1943, at 525 Darley Road, Colombo. All takings at the door were donated to the Deaf & Blind School.

W. J. G. BELING

  1. Jaffna Rest House
  2. Still Life Composition
  3. Portrait of Mr Penman
  4. Searchlights in Moonlight
  5. Landscape
  6. Madras Thorn from the Window
  7. Still-life with Palette

A. C. COLLETTE

  1. Landscape with Buildings
  2. Landscape with Trees
  3. Upcountry Landscape
  4. Portrait of Mr Jansz
  5. Cat
  6. Still-life with Guitar
  7. Trees

GEORGE CLAESSEN

  1. Toy Groups
  2. Yellow Wild-flowers
  3. Kingfisher
  4. Old Woman
  5. Adam’s Peak across City Buildings
  6. Mother and Child
  7. Exposition of Mother and Child
  8. Roger – nude
  9. Nude Female
  10. Portrait of Julian Perera

R. D. CLAESSEN

  1. (Sculpture) Creole Head
  2. Beetle with Dung Ball
  3. Immigrant
  4. Federation
  5. Philomela
  6. Paperweights

J. F. PIERIS DARANIYAGALA

  1. Waiting for the Moon to Shine
  2. Very Poor People (1)
  3. Very Poor People (2)
  4. Strange Interlude
  5. East is East
  6. Artist and Model
  7. Notes for a New Mythology

R. D. GABRIEL

  1. The Customer isn’t always right
  2. Unwelcome Visitor
  3. Study of a Young Girl
  4. Platform
  5. Self-portrait
  6. Landscape
  7. Connoisseur
  8. Idyll
  9. House by the Way-side
  10. (Pastel) Mid-country Scene
  11. Platform
  12. Portrait of an Old Man
  13. Siesta

GEORGE KEYT

  1. Kinnara
  2. Vasanta Raga
  3. Nayika
  4. Girl Bathing
  5. Nayika
  6. Shakuntala
  7. The Journey
  8. The Toilet
  9. Bhima and Jarasandha
  10. Woman and Child
  11. (Pastel) The Lovers
  12. Composition
  13. (Water-colour) Tale

MANJUSRI THERO

  1. Winter in
  2. Family
  3. Two Sisters
  4. Spectators
  5. Lotus
  6. Tibetan Orchids
  7. Mara
  8. Muktalata
  9. (Water-colour) The Dhamma Introduced to China
  10. A Santai Mother and Child
  11. The Buddha’s Journey to lsipatana
  12. The Dancers
  13. Study for Mara

IVAN PERIES

  1. Dora
  2. Portrait: W. J. G. Beling
  3. The Chess Player
  4. Portrait of a Writer
  5. Landscape
  6. Two-piano Conversation Piece
  7. Pink Earth
  8. Vedehette Estate

HARRY PIERIS

  1. Portrait: Mrs Nihal Gunasekara
  2. Portrait: Mrs David Rockwood
  3. Landscape: Bengal Village
  4. Jaina Bhavana – Santiniketan
  5. Bhuvanagar Village, Bengal

Y. J. THURING

  1. Yellow Snake
  2. Lovers

WALTER WITHARNE

  1. The River Cloud
  2. Rassagala
  3. Departing Day, Ratnapura
  4. Katugas Ela
  5. The Peak from Kalawana
  6. Lakgala, Bandarawela
  7. From the Vicarage, Ratnapura
  8. The Haze
  9. Ginigathhena
  10. Bulutota
  11. Bopath Ela Falls
  12. Dawn, Balangoda
  13. Ratnapura Floods
  14. Evening – Ratnapura
  15. The Peak from Ratnapura
  16. Water-colour
  17. The Kelani in Spate