Lot 32

The tapestry appears to be in very good condition consistent with age. No visible signs of damage to the work. The work has a metal top support bar for display, with fixtures to the tapestry inherent.


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The Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne (tapestry no. 79/11)
The National Australia Bank Art Collection

Australian Tapestry, Arsenal Gallery, New York, 3-31 October 1980, cat. no. 6

The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries From the Collection of National Australia Bank, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 15 October - 28 November 1982

The Seventies: A Selection of Australian Paintings and Tapestries From the Collection of National Australia Bank, Waverly City Gallery, Melbourne, 21 February - 13 March 1986, cat. no. 17

Lindsay, R. (ed.), The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries From the Collection of National Australia Bank, The National Bank of Australasia, Melbourne, 1982, p. 125 (illus.)
The design for West Melbourne 1979 continues Senberg's interest in architecture as the facade of ideas and the physical evidence of civilisation. The central core of the work has, at its base and to the right, the remaining fragments of a neo-classical doric columned building, perhaps one of the few remaining architectural monuments of the Victorian era in a world of high-rise development.
(excerpt, p. 125)

Walker, S., Artists' Tapestries From Australia 1976-2005, The Beagle Press, Sydney, 2007, p. 91 (illus.)