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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Michèle Asprey Collection of Australian Contemporary Art
• Sale Date:
  10 Nov 2013 ~ 4pm
• Lot #:
  42
• Lot Description:
  Timothy (Tim) Maguire
  (Born 1958)
  Study for Chisenhale Installation I, 1992, from the exhibition Canal
  watercolour on paper
  16cm high x 35cm wide
• Provenance:
  Mori Gallery, Sydney
• Exhibited:
  Chisenhale Gallery, London 1992
• Notes:
  Tim Maguire was born in Chertsey, England, and received his postgraduate degree at the Sydney College of Arts, Australia (1984). He has exhibited widely both within Australia and in Europe. Canal, Chisenhale Gallery 29 July-30 August 1992 ÒThis exhibition is based on a series of five large paintings, oils on canvas. Its title, Canal, is at once straightforward - referring to its inspiration and an immediate geographical context - and oblique, as it conflates notions of man-made and natural phenomena. [É] Canal literally refers to the Hertford Union Canal, which branches off the Grand Union Canal system and runs alongside Chisenhale Gallery. Inaccessible and not visible from inside the gallery, it exists immediately behind the long wall on which the series is hung. [É]Hung at regular intervals, the paintings are bisected vertically by a band of high-keyed colour, thus suggesting casements and a penetration of the wall. The band is easily seen as an aperture, through which light emanates, and the smooth finish of the paintings, reminiscent of glazing, only serves to reinforce the metaphor. Equally, the paintings might be read as aerial views, or maps. The vertical bands, in fields of gently modulated colour, have the straightness of canals - rivers, being natural things, never do - signifying the difference made by human invention.Ó Excerpt from Jonathan Watkins' essay about the exhibition
• Estimate:
  A$1,500 - 2,500
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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