PSYCHIC (FOR YVES KLEIN)

Details

IMANTS ALFRED TILLERS (B. 1950)
PSYCHIC (FOR YVES KLEIN)
stencilled with numbers 8582 to 8713 (on the reverse)
oilstick, synthetic polymer paint on 132 canvasboards
279.4 x 457.2 cm
Painted in 1986
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Provenance

Yuill Crowley, Sydney
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1986

Literature

D. Thomas, Imants Tillers - Venice Biennale 1986 - Australia, Sydney, 1986, illus. (unpaginated)
W. Curnow, Imants Tillers and the 'Book of Power', Sydney, 1998, illus. pl. 5, pp. 28 - 29; illus. pl. 7, p. 31; p. 161

Exhibited

Sydney, Yuill/Crowley, Imants Tillers, 1986 Venice, La 42nd Biennale di Venezia 29 June - 28 September 1986, cat. no. 12
Brisbane, Queensland Art Gallery; Melbourne, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art; Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, Paintings for Venice: Australia at the 42nd Venice Biennale, 1987

Special notice

A 10% Goods and Services tax (G.S.T) will be charged on the Buyer's Premium on all lots in this sale.

Lot Essay

The remarkable group of six works by Imants Tillers which were exhibited at the 42nd Venice Biennale comprise Psychic (For Yves Klein) and
'Heart of the Wood', 1985, Museum of Contemporary Art collection, Sydney
'I am the Door', 1985, Art Gallery of South Australia collection, Adelaide
'Mount Analogue', 1985, National Gallery of Australia collection, Canberra
'The Hyperborean and the Speluncar', 1986, Private collection, Perth
'The Kondratiev Wave, 1986

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