Lot 115

Work is in very good condition. There are slight handling marks seen on top right. The back of the work is sealed, no details visible. Overall Frame size measuring 153.5 x 168.5cm.


The opinions expressed in the condition reports are a guide only and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Prospective buyers are encouraged to physically inspect item, or book a virtual viewing or request further images during our pre-sale period where Leonard Joel staff are available for advice.
Please note condition reports can be amended during the pre-sale period, so we strongly suggest any interested bidders check the published condition report available on the website before the auction commences. Leonard Joel makes no guarantee of the originality of mechanical or applied components. Absence of reference to such modifications does not imply that a lot is free from modifications.

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

The Seventies' Exhibition: Selected Paintings from the National Australia Bank Collection 'Modern Art of the Seventies', Caulfield Arts Complex, Melbourne, 18 January - 11 February 1990, cat. no. 7

Lindsay, R. (ed.), The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries From the Collection of National Australia Bank, The National Bank of Australasia, Melbourne, 1982, pl. 37, p. 50 (illus.)
"The luminous effect of light and broad expanse of earth colours, ochre and mauves lend effect to nature treated as an allusive interior."
"I have adopted a voyeur's view that sweeps into the panorama of the quarry, the violence of a scarred landscape, veiled by an atmospheric tonal intermediary sharpening the quarry itself into a crystalline limpidity."
"I have evoked a spatial and dramatic ambiguity borrowed from Chinese scroll painting, fused with the closed intensity of futurist dynamism, to create a restive but illusive vision of landscape." (Artist's Statement, p. 50)