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• Auction House:
  Sotheby's Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  20 Nov 2012 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  25
• Lot Description:
  Gordon Bennett
  born 1955
  Australian Icon (1989)
  synthetic polymer paint on canvas
  150.5 x 150.5cm
• Provenance:
  Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne; Private Collection, Melbourne; Aboriginal Art, Sotheby's Australia, Sydney, 28 July 2003, lot 191, illustrated; Private Collection, MelbourneDepending on how far you stand from Australian Icon (notes on perception no.
• Exhibited:
  Bennett has stated that it is unimportant which particular ship is depicted, but concedes that 'in the context of the Bicentennial, a ship is very likely to be interpreted in relation to the 'first (European) fleet', or even Captain Cook's 'Endeavor''. (2); Bennett was not alone in his urge to re-paint history in 1988. The Arnhem Land artist Paddy Fordham Wainburranga also used the image of a ship as the vector of invasion. Wainburranga's Too many Captain Cooks was created in the same year he de
• References:
  (1) Gordon Bennett, The Manifest Toe, in Ian McLean, Gordon Bennett, The Art of Gordon Bennett, Craftsman House, New South Wales, 1996, p.34-35 (2) Ibid, p. 41 (2) Ibid, p. 41 (3) Ian McLean in Ian McLean, Gordon Bennett, The Art of Gordon Bennett, Craftsman House, New South Wales, 1996, p.74 (4) op. cit. p.43 (5) Michael Nelson Tjakamarra in Vivien Johnson, Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists, IAD Press, Alice Springs, 2008, p.205
• Estimate:
  A$50,000 - 70,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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