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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Tony White | The Jeweller's Eye
• Sale Date:
  11 Oct 2020 ~ 2pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  71
• Lot Description:
  Robert Klippel
  (1920-2001)
  No. 279, 1973
  brazed and welded steel construction, geometric sections
  height: 49.5cm
• Provenance:
  Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney; Grant Mudford Collection, Sydney: Michael Feller, Sydney; Collection of Late Tony White, Sydney
• References:
  James Gleeson, Robert Klippel, Bay Books, Sydney, 1983, pp. 355-56, pl. 291, (illus.), p. 474; Deborah Edwards, A Catalogue Raisonné of Sculptures by Robert Klippel, Art Gallery of NSW CD-ROM, 2002, No. 279
• Notes:
  Within the chapter titled 'Simplification and Fabrication: Sydney 1969-75', James Gleeson carefully dissects this period of Klippel's works. He notes the explicitly geometrical nature of the series, with cylinders bridged by plates linked by curved or angled sections. Of this work, Gleeson writes, 'The same system of plates connected by arcs or angled sections is used in Opus 279 (pl. 291), though in this case the structure consists of a major and minor vertical organisation rising from basal plates designed to suggest a solid block from some angles and a concave form from others. Another structural difference is the use of straight connective rods in addition to the segmented extrusions, but the syntax of its forms brings it into a category for which Opus 293 has been elected, more or less arbitrarily, as the key work. Geometry rules this area with a firm hand, but it is a geometry which eschews such norms as symmetry and leaves the way open for the most formal elements to move in space with no other constraints than those imposed by the artist's aesthetic sensibility. In one place on the major axis of Opus 279, there is a duplication of angles and curves which produces a small symmetrical sequence, but the plate it supports is purposefully asymmetrical, so that the small episode of symmetry becomes no more than a teasing reference to a kind of formality that the construction as a whole rejects.'
• Estimate:
  A$7,000 - 10,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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