Lot 39

Work is in overall good condition with no apparent faults to report. Well framed in a black timber frame with minor wear to the edges seen. Overall framed size measuring 86 x 60cm.


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Tim Melville Gallery, Auckland (label verso)
Private collection, Melbourne
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 31 March 2021, lot 42
Private collection, Melbourne

Roberta Thornley, Tomorrow, Tim Melville Gallery, Auckland, 8 June - 3 July 2010

"I have a curiosity about youth … about young people and their heightened exploration of life. It is a hopeful exploration, without an immediate resolution or meaning, and I am interested in capturing them at moments between hope and unease. Between promise and disaster.
They carry the experimental nature of their existence so easily at this time. It is like an explosion – a moment of madness – which I think eventually dies or transforms into something very different." (The Artist)