Lot 24

Overall good condition, consistent with age.

Overall framed sizes: i: 184.5 x 27cm, ii. 185 x 43cm


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The National Australia Bank Art Collection (label verso)

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

Lindsay, R. (ed.), The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries From the Collection of National Australia Bank, The National Bank of Australasia, Melbourne, 1982, pl. 59, p. 72 (illus.)
"In late February, 1973 I began a series of tall, narrow works that came to a halt in May 1974. I imagine that I was influenced by the format of a Jules Olitski (Fourth Indomitable, c.255 x 28cm) that I bought for the Power Gallery of Contemporary Art in 1972, but it is clear that I was intent upon avoiding lateral pauses and intervals and in having the work register itself as instantly as possible, like a sign-post or single-minded totem pole"
"I did over twenty of these works, most of which were not textural, but emphasised collage, and, usually, had a clear enough theme."
"Last Post (10 February, 1974) was one of four very narrow paintings; the sound the Last Post stops me in my tracks so I wanted something positive but tender, with appropriate associations... The painting is post-like, an elongated stele, a reminder of the day that has ended, perhaps... but I should like to feel that it is open to other, but similar, interpretations"
(Artist's Statement, p. 72)