CLEMENT MEADMORE (1929-2005)
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CLEMENT MEADMORE (1929-2005)

Untitled

Details
CLEMENT MEADMORE (1929-2005)
Untitled
welded steel
46 x 46 x 46 cm
This sculpture is accompanied by a polaroid photograph with a certificate of authenticity signed by B. Brown and further signed by Russell Davis from The Russell Davis Art Gallery, Victoria
Provenance
B. Brown, Glen Innes, Victoria (purchased in 1960)
The Russell Davis Art Gallery, Collingwood
Acquired from the above
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Lot Essay

Before moving to New York in 1963, Clement Meadmore had already established a strong reputation in Australia for his abstract steel sculptures. Untitled is representative of these early works, which display a strong, almost brutal instinct in their form, enlivened by Meadmore's capacity to imbue vitality through planar structure and surface texture.

"Surface texture disquiets", wrote John Hershaw in a 1962 review of Meadmore's work, "As if one were looking at the sweating walls of a crypt, uniformly black bubbled and repellent. The forms have as it were tired of these inherent orders and are imperceptibly trying to grow an animal skin. In this summing up of contrasts or contradictions Meadmore touches a central mystery, the longing of contemporary civilisation to combine the security of ruthless logic with the maximum of sensuality and self-abandon." (J. Hershaw in K. Scarlett, Australian Sculptors, Melbourne, 1980, p.431).

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