Lot 2

Work is in very good condition with no apparent faults to report. This work is stretched, with no additional framing.


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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. 21, p. 34 (illus.)
"The space achieved is inverted landscape-space. The foreground is at the top of the painting and the deepest space illusion at the bottom and around the edge. Contrary to traditional landscape-space, the painting does not represent a cut-out section of a larger real space.
The forms inside the rectangle are totally and only related to its very own rectangular shape. The square edge of the image itself gave shape to what forms are seen inside its borderlines. In the drawings also, the shape of the drawing itself gave the order of its content. Structure came out of the assertion of the boundaries - from the geometric shape of the picture area to a natural order within"
(Artist's Statement p.34)