Arthur Boyd had been living in London for seven years when he painted the present work, and his position as a leading Australian artist on the international stage was well established. Following the success of his seminal Brides series in 1958/59, he left for London and continued th
Although Garry Shead could be broadly described as a republican and his Royal Suite paintings promptly entered the Australian republican debate of the late 1990s, this was not the primary intention of the series. It had been a long time in the making, in fact about forty y
Charles Blackman’s School Children at Play, created when he was just twenty-five years old, holds an impressive threefold significance.
Firstly, the rare and early painting was created in 1953 exactly midpoint in the three-year pivotal time slot during which he developed h
Maguire came from a family of teachers and always assumed that he too would join that profession. This was shattered when Maguire was very badly injured in a serious train crash that left him unable to study or work for a full three years. After this period, he enrolled at The University of
Arthur Boyd was one of the most significant Australian artists of the twentieth century, part of a veritable creative dynasty which included his grandparents, Emma Minnie a’Beckett (1858-1936) and Arthur Merric Boyd (1862-1940), his uncle Penleigh (1890-1923) and his parents Merric (1888-195
When the Prince of Pop met the Louisville Lip in 1977 something special was bound to happen. Andy Warhol was one of the most iconic artists of his time, famous for his serial images of soup cans, coke bottles, actresses and world leaders. Muhammad Ali was at the top of his game, recently pro
It is often remarked that there is something distinctly Australian about Kelly’s cow series of paintings and sculptures. This at first seems quite odd because the cow is not an Australian native animal and Kelly was born in England. However, it is not the cows as such that embody Australia,
Considered in terms of Williams’s stylistic progression, the present painting Hillside II of 1968 may be justifiably considered as the culmination of an important five-year long aesthetic development.
Hillside II 1968 is an aesthetic companion to Hillsid
Jeffrey Smart’s major painting Outside the Ministry of 1970 is a harmony of parts. The painting pulses with what might justifiably be called “visual alliteration”. That is, it has a range of “optical melodies” that run through and serve to both form and inform the built-up
Fernand Léger’s China Town of 1943 is a rare and singularly accomplished painting that was created during the artist’s longest visit to America. Its visually arresting compositional attributes are distinctively typical of the sixty-two year old artist’s mature oeuvre in the last