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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  04 Apr 2023 ~ 6pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  18
• Lot Description:
  Mirka Madeleine Mora
  (born 1928)
  Blue Angel, 2006
  oil on canvas
  83.0 x 133.0cm (32 11/16 x 52 3/8in).
  signed lower left: 'MIRKA / 06'
• Provenance:
  William Mora Galleries, Melbourne; Private collection, Tasmania, acquired from the above in 2006
• Exhibited:
  Mirka Mora: Recent Paintings, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, 25 July - 18 August 2006, cat. 2
• Notes:
  Few artists in Australia are held in such affectionate public regard as Mirka Mora. Even fewer have had such an amazing life. Narrowly avoiding Auschwitz during the Second World War, she left France in the early 1950s with her husband Georges and settled in Melbourne. There they ran three landmark cafe - restaurants which became magnets for artists, writers and intellectuals - a slice of Paris's Left Bank in an otherwise staid and provincial Melbourne. The Mirka Cafe was not just a fantastic place to be, it was the impetus for the revival of the Contemporary Art Society, which in turn led to the establishment of the acclaimed Museum of Modern Art at Heide. Mirka herself was entirely self-taught as a painter, observing and absorbing the works of her friends and contemporaries. John Perceval's flamboyance, Arthur Boyd's naturalness, Charles Blackman's poetry and Joy Hester's passion were all inspirations. Mirka Mora, Wicked But Virtuous: My Life, Penguin Books, Melbourne 2000, n.p.
• Estimate:
  A$15,000 - 25,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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