Lot 7
She Saw Two Girls and a Boy 1966 #1 2006
(Haunted Country 2006)
pigment ink print, ed. 3/6
signed on artist's label verso: Polixeni Papapetrou
titled, dated and editioned on artist's label verso
105 x 105cm
Estimate $1,500 - $2,500
Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne
Olympia: Photographs by Polixeni Papapetrou, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 27 September 2019 - 15 March 2020 (another impression)
Other impressions of this print are currently held in the permanent collections of the Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong; and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
"The title of the work is taken from a witness statement made after Jane, Arnna and Grant Beaumont disappeared from Adelaide's Glenelg Beach on 26 January 1966.
Despite an extensive police search, the children were never seen again and their disappearance continues to be the subject of investigation. Papapetrou's composition visually conveys the lack of closure in the case: with their backs to the viewer and peering out towards the distant horizon, a sense of the children's disconnection is emphasised."
(Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong)
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