Lot 16

Two spots of paint loss to right edge and some paint loss to low left corner from stretcher.


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The National Australia Bank Art Collection

The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries From the Collection of National Australia Bank", National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 15 October - 28 November 1982

Lindsay, R. (ed.), The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries From the Collection of National Australia Bank, The National Bank of Australasia, Melbourne, 1982, pl. 8, p. 21 (illus.)
"Commenting on an exhibition of Chinese painting nearly forty years ago an eminent critic said that the paintings in the exhibition were ... 'charts of a Way that men have followed' and that our current training and approach would not let us follow it. He went on to compare our 'aesthetic' approach 'to that of a traveller who, when he sees a signpost, proceeds to admire its elegance, then asks who made it, and finally cuts it down and takes it home to be used as a mantelpiece ornament'.
Above all I would like to be a maker of signposts; and to have them treated as signposts." (Artist's Statement from 1981, p. 21)