Lot 68

In good condition overall. At the back one of the wooden stretcher bars has broken. This is not currently affecting the stability of the work but it may be worthwhile having this repaired for long term care.


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De-accessioned by Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Sotheby's Australia, 143 Works from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Melbourne, 21 June 1992, lot 78
Private collection, Melbourne

Alun Leach-Jones: Berliner Arbeiten
Bilder, Zeichnungen, Collagen, Papiergussobjekte, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 1981 (illus. p.1 & 3 as 'Manchu Red' 1980, accompanied by a copy of the exhibition catalogue).

Gray R., Alun Leach-Jones and Baroque Abstraction, Alun Leach-Jones, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1988, p. 9
[discussing the Romance of Death Series]
"Despite the hard-edge style, [there is] something of action painting, and pop art. The former in a surface explosiveness, the latter in the allusions and atmosphere, which recall the Mardi Gras, the night club, the ticker-tape parade: those places of modern Dionysian revel".