Lot 21

Work is in overall good condition, with no apparent faults. There are minor scratches seen to the frame. Overall framed size 153 x 123cm.


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The National Australia Bank Art Collection

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' Exhibition: Selected Paintings from the National Australia Bank Collection 'Modern Art of the Seventies', Caulfield Arts Complex, Melbourne, 18 January - 11 February 1990, cat. no. 12

Lindsay, R. (ed.), The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries From the Collection of National Australia Bank, The National Bank of Australasia, Melbourne, 1982, pl. 44, p. 57 (illus.)
"The painting 'The Alcove' belongs to a group of paintings carried out in 1979. It represents an interior with abstract symbols. I shall give a background to my work - I was brought up in a middle European family during the wartime and its aftermath. I migrated to Australia in 1955 when I was twenty years old. After my formal training in art I was strongly attracted to the mainstream of abstract art. My keen interest in past civilisations and the question of man's existence and purpose on this planet have a constant influence on my work. In the twenty-six years of my being in Australia, the nature; the landscape with its vast distances, the ever-changing skies; the sea and the wild coastlines are the other sources of my inspiration in my paintings, mingled with a strong feeling towards metaphysics"
(Artist's Statement, p. 57)