Study for Camel Gate, Border Track, SA/Vic 2006

John Wolseley born 1938

Study for Camel Gate, Border Track, SA/Vic 2006

carbonised wood and graphite on paper
56.0 x 143.0 cm
signed lower centre: John Wolseley
dated and inscribed lower right: 7 November 2006. Up early to continue drawing .... as I started/ a Jacky Lizard began to dig a hole in the sand about 5 feet from my easel./ She dug away on & off till dusk, when we both went off to our different sleeping quarters./ The next morning she continued digging as I continued my drawing. When/ I had my lunch the next day I noticed that she began covering up the hole -/ and the eggs which I presumed she had laid. At 5 pm,/ I saw her smoothing & patting the sand where the hole had been/ so impeccably that it soon became impossible to see anything had happened there./ She then walked slowly without pausing/ to the edge of the track and disappeared into the scrub./ I climbed into my truck and went off in another direction to my home, beyond The Sunset Country./ el./ 142 m S 35° 50.483 E 140° 51.664

Provenance:
Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 2007 (label attached verso)
Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:
Travelling West to Sunset Tank, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 19 September - 14 October 2007, cat.10

Related Works:
Camel Gate, Border Track, SA/Vic, 2006, carbonised wood, graphite and watercolour on paper, 209.0 x 195.0 cm, winner of the Art Gallery of New South Wales Trustees' Watercolour Prize, Wynne Prize, 2008

Estimate: $4000 - 6000

Result Hammer: $4500