Lot 12

The work is in good condition overall. There are minor handling marks and creases to the far edges of the sheet. There is a hole in the upper left, approximately 4mm length, with three other pin-sized holes around it. There is a subtle abrasion to the black part of the print in the lower right, approximately 8cm in length. The work is newly framed in a black box frame, the artwork floating against a white mount. Overall size is 125 x 185 x 4cm.


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The Larry Rawling Collection

"Brent Harris' To the forest series, made between 1997-99, was inspired by the woodcut 'Towards the forest II' (1915) by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (featuring a forest landscape with two figures huddled together facing into the forest). The outline of Harris's cropped and drooping tree branches in this print were influenced by the shape made by Munch's tree tops, silhouetted against the sky in the form of cascading drips. In Munch's print, the forest is not so much a representation of nature as a psychological landscape in which he could express fundamental human emotions, such as despair, fear, melancholy and jealousy. Harris' To the forest series also forms a psychological landscape as an expression of human emotion. Harris' works are often eerie renderings of personal trauma and family dysfunction; Harris and Munch's prints resonate on a similar emotional register, through disparate visual means." Art Gallery of New South Wales.


© Brent Harris