Showing posts for April 2011.
by Melanie on 07 April 2011
Lucifier Gold
2011
Oil and acrylic and screenprinting inks on canvas
2700 x 2000mm
"In recent years Millar has used mechanically-generated enlargements of handmade gestures to challenge our expectations of the expressive gesture and of the efficacy of painting as a contemporary means of...
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by Melanie on 07 April 2011
Untitled (De Chirico, Pacific Ocean)
1980/2010
(30 year old work restretched, repaired, cleaned, re-surfaced and re-drawn August/September 2010)
Oil/wax crayon on acrylic on canvas
1680 x 1680mm
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by Melanie on 12 April 2011
Simbai Area Shield
Maker unknown
Wood,
blackened encrusted patina
1260 x 480mm
From the late Denis Dutton Collection. Webb’s Auction, March 2011. Chartwell acknowledges the original maker and welcomes contact from them via the website feedback form if approvals for image use...
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by Melanie on 14 April 2011
Heading #6
2011
residue resulting from the combustion of FFg black powder on Fabriano cotton rag
510 x 1400mm
Heading #6 detail (left) and process (right)
Two Rooms
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by Melanie on 14 April 2011
Horizontal Relief
Acrylic on canvas and lacquered board
Title inscribed, signed and dated ’73 verso
1115 x 1680mm
Reverse and detail
Plaque reads: "Though this is a painting its constructed elements are suggestive of sculpture with the differing planes we expect to sculpture. A...
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by Melanie on 14 April 2011
Taking a Tumble
Acrylic on paper
Signed and dated 2/2009
790 x 1372mm
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by Melanie on 18 April 2011
Guillement II
2011
Oil on canvas
500 x 400mm
Hauser
2011
Oil on silk
500 x 400mm
"In these new paintings by Selina Foote, abstracted shapes, compositions and palettes are extracted from reproductions of historic portrait paintings. The titles of each painting acknowledge this...
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