Lot 27
Hong Kong Peasants 1968
oil on board
signed and dated upper left: Florence Shirlow/ 1968
titled on exhibition label verso
55 x 97cm
Estimate $2,000 - $3,000
The Estate of Jim Alexander
Florence Shirlow, Jim Alexander Gallery, 9 -16 April 1989, cat. no. 19
Classical Modernism: The George Bell Circle, The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 28 May - 3 August 1992 (label verso)
Alexander, J., Florence Shirlow, exhibition catalogue, 1989
St. John Moore, F., Classical Modernism: The George Bell Circle, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1992, cat. no. 112, p. 49 (illus.)
"In this colourful response to a holiday in Hong Kong, Shirlow uses the black coolie hats of figures planting rice in a paddy-field as a springboard for the slower rhythms of variegated hills in the background. The composition is anchored by a cylindrical, Bell-like tree in the left foreground."
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