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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Sherman | 100
• Sale Date:
  11 May 2022 ~ 5pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  16
• Lot Description:
  Tim Storrier
  (born 1949)
  The Carcass, 1993
  synthetic polymer paint on canvas
  183.0 x 91.0cm (72 1/16 x 35 13/16in).
  signed and dated lower right: 'Storrier / 1993'
• Provenance:
  The Gene & Brian Sherman Collection, Sydney
• Exhibited:
  Elemental Reckoning: The Art of Tim Storrier, 1981-2011, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 11 November - 18 December 2011
• References:
  Laura Murray Cree, Twenty: Sherman Galleries, 1986-2006, Craftsman House, Sydney, 2006, p. 241 (illus.); Gavin Wilson, Elemental Reckoning - The Art of Tim Storrier 1981 - 2011, Jam Press, Eglinton, 2011
• Notes:
  For the publication Twenty: Sherman Galleries, 1986-2006, Tony Bond interviewed William Wright about his life and experiences. Of enduring his friendship and working relationship with Tim Storrier, Wright observed, 'I first met him (Tim) soon after returning to Australia in 1981 and subsequent to a couple of initial 'classical' Tim encounters I began to know him as the very decent, generous and exceptionally capable individual that he is. He's an artist of unique status whose work is often critically misrepresented; mistakenly categorised simply as 'landscape painting' and within the tradition of Australian plein air painters, whereas in reality his work belongs more - if indirectly - within that of the European Romantic and neo-Classical subject painters: David, Ingres, Delacroix. He is certainly a painter of vistas, sometimes interior, mostly exterior, as simply slices of the natural terrain, but most often they are works of dramatic metaphoric complexity; which have their basis in personal life as well as the nature of his ethical beliefs. As such they are allusive and contain elements of narrative. While Tim likes to travel and work in various places and physical and cultural surrounds, and has done so extensively here in Australia and abroad throughout his life, he is fundamentally a studio painter, which is where he loves to be, where his highly evolved visual orchestrations come into gradually evolving being. Apart from its sheer painterly virtuosity, the power of his work comes from its archetypal Australian imagery - the elemental interplay of air, land and fire, mud, water and the stars, those nocturnal distillations of the overpowering Southern night skies. While some of it is quite literal subject painting, much of his work is allegorical, as he says, about mortality, both real and cultural, about loss.'
• Estimate:
  A$80,000 - 120,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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