Lot #24 - Aida Tomescu
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Auction House:Bonhams Australia
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Sale Name:Selected works from the collection of Bill Nuttall and Annette Reeves
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Sale Date:07 Jul 2020 ~ 6pm (AEST)
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Lot #:24
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Lot Description:Aida Tomescu
(born 1955)
Blue and Crimson, 1993
oil on canvas
213.0 x 182.5cm (83 7/8 x 71 7/8in).
signed, dated and titled verso: 'Aida Tomescu / "Blue-and-Crimson" / 1993' -
Provenance:Coventry Gallery, Sydney; Christie's, Sydney, 13 August 2000, lot 92; Private collection, Brisbane; The Bill Nuttall & Annette Reeves Collection, Melbourne
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Exhibited:Aida Tomescu, Coventry Gallery, Sydney, 10 - 28 August 1993 (illus.)
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Notes:'In Tomescu's mature paintings the sheer physicality of paint, its density and the archaeology of the layers, its application and movement across the surface, is inseparable from the content. The tenor of the work is guided by its colouration and by it internal rhythms, like the variations and tonalities in paint and matter over time. In relation to mood and feeling, while some of the cool, meditative paintings appear to be floating in space others... are more animated, with marks leaping and scudding apace across the surface'. Deborah Hart, "Aida Tomescu: States of Becoming", in Aida Tomescu, exhibition catalogue, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, 2009, pp 9-11; 15; 18; 21.
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Estimate:A$15,000 - 25,000
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Realised Price:
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Category:Art
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