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• Auction House:
  Webb's
• Sale Name:
  Vision Series
• Sale Date:
  24 Nov 2015 ~ 6.30pm (NZ time)
• Lot #:
  17
• Lot Description:
  Gordon Walters
  Untitled
  gouache on paper
  148mm x 117m
  signed and dated '76 verso
• Provenance:
  Acquired by the present owner from Peter McLeavey Gallery c.1976.
• Notes:
  It was in 1956 that Gordon Walters first made serious studies concerning the depiction of koru-derived imagery, a design that has become synonymous with the artist. In this small gouache on paper, the artist continues his interest in the Māori motif. The contrasted vertical rows are deliberately restricted to a limited palette, a feature Walters often used, in order to balance the composition and form an interconnected and complementary construction. Here, the yellow and grey-blue bands of colours are identical in shape and size, so that the free-flowing design deftly interplays positively and negatively. These two tones delicately rest beside one another in a dual interplay, where Walters’ iconic minimalistic design is repeated to form a stylised image. A closer inspection of the curved bulbs reveals slight pencil marks, exemplifying the artist’s manufacture and freehand technique. He used these curved circular forms and their horizontal bands in order to create an optical illusion: the edges of the stacked rows are cropped, which suggests a canvas that extends beyond the two-dimensional picture frame and into infinity. JESSICA DOUGLAS
• Estimate:
  NZ$40,000 - 60,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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