Lot 38

Work in excellent condition. Well framed and ready to hang.


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Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 2007
David Bradshaw Fine Art, Melbourne
Little Malop Fine Art Gallery, Geelong (label attached verso)
Private collection, Melbourne

Peggy Perrins Shaw commenced her training at the National Gallery School, under George Bell, in Melbourne in 1948 under the postwar training scheme when she was in her early thirties.
In 1956 Peggy married historian Alan Shaw and their circle of friends included John Brack, Fred Williams and John Olsen. She shared their deep affection for the forms seen in nature however in the early 1970's this was at odds with the vanguard push towards port-object art and interests in conceptualism, process and performance - a backlash against the formal and political terms of late modernist painting and sculpture. It was at this period that she widened her approach and further developed the abstract qualities of her art. From this period onwards she moved between styles, her imagery ranging from tight to more free.
"An artist primarily concerned with the natural world and its abstract, painterly possibilities." Lesley Harding, from Monash University Museum of Art website.