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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Michèle Asprey Collection of Australian Contemporary Art
• Sale Date:
  10 Nov 2013 ~ 4pm
• Lot #:
  19
• Lot Description:
  Robert Edward Klippel
  (1920-2001)
  Opus 314, 1976
  brazed steel, geometric sections, found objects
  35cm high
• Provenance:
  Sotheby's 2/10/94; Estate of Mervin Horton; Private collection
• Notes:
  Robert Klippel was one of Australia's pre-eminent sculptors. As early as 1964, art critic Robert Hughes called Klippel Òone of the few Australian sculptors worthy of international attentionÓ. His work is represented in the majority of Australian public institutions, in particular the National Gallery of Australia and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Both have comprehensive collections of his sculptures, drawings and collages. As a child he showed aptitude for constructing objects - model ships in particular. He attended night classes in sculpture at East Sydney Technical College under Lyndon Dadswell. He moved to England in the mid 1940's where he became life-long friend and collaborator with Australian surrealist painter James Gleeson. He also spent time in Paris, acquainting himself with Picasso's works of the constructivist period and also with Andre Breton and the French Surrealists. He returned to Australia for a few years and then emigrated in the United States. That is when he moved away from a more traditional sculpture and began to incorporate in his works machine parts, pieces of wood and various discarded industrial materials. He began casting wax and plastic parts into bronze from which he made sculptural assemblages from the disparate elements. In the 1980's he began working with wooden foundry patterns and used them to cast a group of imposing bronzes for the Australian National Gallery's Sculpture Garden. It also resulted in a prodigious series of painted wooden sculptures. Robert Klippel's Opus 314 (1976) was featured and pictured in James Gleeson's book Klippel, published in 1983.
• Estimate:
  A$20,000 - 30,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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