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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The John Buckley Collection of Modern & Contemporary Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  13 May 2014 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  51
• Lot Description:
  Dale Hickey
  (born 1937)
  Untitled 1986
  oil and enamel on canvas
  182.5 x 182.5 cm
  signed and dated 'Hickey 86' lower right'
• Exhibited:
  Nocturne: Images of Night and Darkness from Colonial to Contemporary, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, 23 April - 16 June 2002; Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria, 5 July - 1 September 2002 (illustrated); Dale Hickey: Life in a Box, Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 13 February - 27 April 2008
• References:
  Nocturne: Images of Night and Darkness from Colonial to Contemporary, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, 23 April - 16 June 2002; Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria, 5 July - 1 September 2002; Dale Hickey: Life in a Box, Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 13 February - 27 April 2008
• Notes:
  This is a prime example of a work by Dale Hickey made after he began concentrating on painting the artist's studio and the objects within it in a reductive manner, from the early 1980s. In Hickey's 2008 survey exhibition at the Ian Potter Centre, Paul Zika commented: There is a continual reworking and rearranging of a range of items - easel, trestle table, canvas, auto-tray and many smaller objects - presented frontally within a shallow stage-like space. Within these paintings there is an ambiguous play between the format of the actual stretcher and the depiction of a canvas within the studio onto that painted surface...Dale Hickey's paintings are normally untitled and produced in series...1 Stephen Haley explored Hickey's spatial concerns further, saying: Dale Hickey's work relentlessly interrogates the pictorial and conceptual heritage that underpins the contemporary picture plane. His work investigates the operation of pictorial space, perception and out modes of representing space. His ongoing series of studio interiors may also be read as interior psychological spaces, where the immateriality of consciousness renders objective phenomena as ephemeral and slippery. But it is the logic of pictorial space that remains primary in his work, and this...has been his most important influence on following generations of artists.2 It is, in fact, a seemingly simplistic yet ingenious play on the picture plane and the artist's studio, a play, therefore, on the fundamental principles of art practice and the permanence and solidity of painting as a medium. Hickey was a teacher at Preston Institute of Technology for many years, during the prevalence of conceptualism as a theory, and he was also included in The Field exhibition. He has held numerous solo and group exhibitions - with retrospectives at the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery in 1988 and another at the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne in 2008 - and is represented in major state, regional and corporate collections. Dr Shireen Huda 1 Paul Zika in Dale Hickey: Life in a Box, Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne, 2008, p.5 2 Stephen Haley, "Deep Flat, The Paintings of Dale Hickey" in Dale Hickey: Life in a Box, op. cit., p.27
• Estimate:
  A$30,000 - 40,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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