Lot 38
The Bottled Memories (4) 1988
(From The Portfolio Aus Australien 1987-89)
etching, aquatint and watercolour, ed. A/P X/XII
signed and dated lower right: Jenny/ Watson/ 1988
editioned lower left
99 x 70cm (sheet)
Estimate $1,000 - $1,500
Viridian Press, Victoria
Private collection, Victoria
"The aquatints of Jenny Watson's series, Bottled Memories, contain a distillation of her personal history in the shape of memories that have formed, and continue to inform, who she is. Each work in the series is a bottling of words, associations and fragments that are preserved in glass like a specimen of scientific curiosity. Fractured and abstracted, letters float free from the words, memories and events they signify."
(Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney)
Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne; Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand; and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney.
Prints & Multiples
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8708
6:00pm - 15 November 2023
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