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Lot Essay
Related work: Study Extension to The Divided Unity circa 1972 - 73, ink, pencil & wash on card, 73.6 x 44 cm, Private collection, Sydney; The Divided Unity, 1974, silkscreen, P: 66.5 x 94 cm, Edition of 70
"There were nine oils and seven large drawings in the exhibition at Melbourne's Australian Galleries. They captured various moods of the sea, each executed by a different form of calligraphy, each in a different style. Some were drawn with unbelievable sparseness, only three of four waved lives caressing the paper. Others were a surging cacaphony of linear swirls and curls in which Hiroshige's celebrated Wave had been in his hindsight, Others had a precisely observed realism." (S McGrath, op.cit, p.153)
"There were nine oils and seven large drawings in the exhibition at Melbourne's Australian Galleries. They captured various moods of the sea, each executed by a different form of calligraphy, each in a different style. Some were drawn with unbelievable sparseness, only three of four waved lives caressing the paper. Others were a surging cacaphony of linear swirls and curls in which Hiroshige's celebrated Wave had been in his hindsight, Others had a precisely observed realism." (S McGrath, op.cit, p.153)