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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen-Webb's
• Sale Name:
  Important Paintings & Contemporary Art
• Sale Date:
  11 Apr 2017 ~ 6.30pm (NZ time)
• Lot #:
  28
• Lot Description:
  Andrew McLeod
  Painter Silhouette
  oil on stretched canvas, diptych, 2008
  1750mm x 2100mm
  signed Andrew McLeod and dated 2008 in brushpoint lower right
• Provenance:
  Purchased from Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch, 2008.
• Notes:
  Andrew McLeod (b. Rotorua, 1976) grew up in Mt Eden in Auckland and graduated in 1998 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Elam School of Fine Arts at The University of Auckland. He lives in Auckland with his partner, artist Liz Maw. McLeod is a painter of visions and wonders drawn from imagination, art history (particularly illustration and graphic design) and autobiography. From these, he creates surreal bricolages of the strange and unexpected, which, nonetheless, always conform to a logic that makes sense to the artist in the ambiguous space he has created for them. Painter Silhouette is a kind of self-portrait. The painter, surrounded by the stereotypical equipment of painting, is rendered like an early 19^th-century silhouette. This serves to lessen his importance in favour of the riot of inspiration surrounding him: a phantasmagoria of plants and animals from illustrated children's books, rainbows and starbursts (nostalgic for the 1970s of McLeod's birth) and a female nude in a leopard-print bikini top, alluding to the subject matter of academic painting and sexual desire that counterpoints the fairy tale innocence. Typically, sex or consumerism is the serpent in McLeod's Eden. McLeod won the National Drawing Award in 2004, the McCahon House Artists' Residency in 2007 and in 2010, was awarded a New Zealand Arts Foundation Award for Patronage Donation from Gus and Irene Fisher. His work is held in several significant collections, including Auckland Art Gallery, the Chartwell Collection, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, the James Wallace Arts Trust, Te Papa Tongarewa, The University of Auckland and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. His work has featured in The 2nd Auckland Triennial in 2004, the 27th São Paulo Biennial in 2006, Telecom Prospect 2007, in solo exhibitions around New Zealand and in group shows in Melbourne, Hong Kong and Berlin. ANDREW PAUL WOOD
• Estimate:
  NZ$40,000 - 65,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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