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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  22 Apr 2021 ~ 6.30pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  69
• Lot Description:
  Robert Campbell Jnr
  (1944-1993)
  (Campsite), 1990
  synthetic polymer paint on canvas
  58.0 x 100.0cm (22 13/16 x 39 3/8in).
  signed, dated and inscribed lower right: 'ROBERT CAMPBELL JR / 3-10-1990 / NGAKU'
• Provenance:
  Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney; Private collection, New South Wales
• Exhibited:
  possibly Robert Campbell Jr, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 1991
• Notes:
  Educated until the age of 14 at the Burnt Bridge Mission School along the Macleay River, Robert Campbell Jnr was the son of a boomerang-maker from whom he received a strong grounding in carving and decoration. Taking up painting after he left school, his manner fused childhood memories with a bold, vivid palette. Equally, a dominant theme was the brutal and grief-soaked history of racism and colonialism in Australia shown in works such as Map of the Massacres of Blacks in the Macleay Vallery, 1990, now in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and painted in the same year as this work. Compositionally related and of the same period as this work is Sunset of the Macleay overlooking Euroka, 1990, also in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Showing a golden landscape with the river reflecting the sunset, it would seem to show the view from our campsite. With both picture planes divided along the rule of thirds, Robert Campbell Jnr shows us a different, arcadian vision of camp life. Infused with nostalgia, the work shows a place of joyful purpose, an idyll lost.
• Estimate:
  A$5,000 - 7,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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