GABRIEL'S HORN

Details

STEPHEN BUSH (B. 1958)
GABRIEL'S HORN
with artist's name, date and title 'Stephen Bush/Gabriel's Horn, 1987' on label (affixed to the reverse)
oil on canvas
152 x 111.3 cm

Provenance

Private collection, Sydney

Literature

P Cripps, Stephen Bush and Janet Burchill, Penrith, 1988, p. 6-7 and illus. p.8
Art and Australia, Spring, 1988, Vol. 26, no. 1, illus. p. 59

Exhibited

Penrith, Lewers Bequest & Penrith Regional Art Gallery, Stephen Bush/Janet Burchill, 1988, cat. no. 5
Sydney, Martin Browne Fine Art, July 1992

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

"Gabriel's Horn refers to John F Peto, a nineteenth century American still-life painter...This picture was inspired by a photograph of John F Peto with his cornet as a young man. It is to do with a passage that comes from the Bible, when Gabriel calls the faithful by blowing his horn. So it deals with the link between the horns of the animal and faith - or the "beasts of the faithful" (P Cripps, op.cit., p. 8)

Courtesy of Vi$copy, Australia

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