Lot 2

Repair to upper left edge, scuff mark top left corner, vertical cracking to border on left edge, small curved cracking to top of central tree, crack to border centre top edge.


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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

Lindsay, R. (ed.), The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries From the Collection of National Australia Bank, The National Bank of Australasia, Melbourne, 1982, pl. 23, p. 36 (illus.)
"In "The Moon River" 1976 James Clifford is concerned with controlled yet accidental effects of the enamel paint which as abstract areas mix and overlap with the pictorial detailing in the figurative landscape. As well there is the additional ambiguity of the moon and its illuminated landscape reflected in the river. This work and its concern with multiple image fragments montaged together with a cinematic relapse into different sequences and viewpoints is an extension of Clifford's 1960s paintings. The brown painted border returns the painting to a film frame convention, while the flowing dripping paint is a static record of a past sequence of animation."
(excerpt, p. 36)