Lot 7
Mephisto 1992
oil on canvas
signed and dated lower left: Peter Churcher 1992
175 x 165cm
Estimate $10,000 - $15,000
Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney
Phillips Auctioneers, Modern & Contemporary Art & Photography, Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 30 July 2001, lot 104
Solander Gallery, Canberra, 2002
Private collection, Sydney
Moët and Chandon Award, touring exhibition 1993
Mephisto, painted in 1993 was the artist's first large scale work and was a finalist in the Moët and Chandon Award. "I was grappling with the figurative language and used symbols to express the grandiose. I was working on the theme of male identity, a subject that has continued to be a part of my work. These figures are struggling and engaging in a rivalry. The mephisto is the character who is standing back - the one controlling and responsible." (Artist's Statement)
The Collector's Auction
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8668
12:00pm - 30 May 2023
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