Lot 18
Fishing Harbour 1958
mixed media on paper
signed and dated lower right: Shay Docking '58
24 x 37cm
Estimate $800 - $1,200
Docking drew her main inspiration from the Western District of Victoria where she had grown up, and which formed her view of nature as both savage and beautiful.'Her instinct turned to nature's great manifestations, and she found a powerful sense of the transcendent spirit in these earth monuments, and in nature's fertility.
Prunster, U., Shay Docking, the Landscape as Metaphor, AH & AW Reed Pty Ltd, New South Wales, 1983, p. 127.
Women Artists
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8249
6:30pm - 10 October 2018
333 Malvern Rd, South Yarra 3141
VIEWING
Saturday 6 October-Sunday 7 October, 10am-4pm
Wednesday 10 October, 9am-5pm
CONTACT
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