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Lot 18

JENNY WATSON (born 1951)
Bottled Memories (4) 1988
(The Portfolio Aus Australien 1987-89)
etching, aquatint and watercolour, ed. P/P
signed and dated lower right: Jenny/ Watson/ 1988
editioned lower left
99.5 x 70cm

Estimate $800 - $1,000

Sold for $1,000


Viridian Press, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne


"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 impressions of this print are held in the permanent 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: LJ8679
6:00pm - 5 April 2023
333 Malvern Rd, South Yarra 3141

VIEWING
Friday 31 March - Sunday 2 April, 10am - 4pm
4 University Place, Clayton VIC

CONTACT
Hannah Ryan
hannah.ryan@leonardjoel.com.au


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