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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Fine Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  28 Oct 2014 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  59
• Lot Description:
  Timothy Austin (Tim) Storrier
  (born 1949)
  Capricorn Setting 2000
  acrylic on canvas
  61.5 x 183 cm
  signed 'Storrier' lower right; titled and dated on label verso
• Provenance:
  Deutscher~Menzies, Australian & International Fine Art, Sydney, 15 June 2005, Lot No. 60; Private Collection, Queensland
• References:
  Catharine Lumby, Tim Storrier: The Art of the Outsider, Craftsman House, Sydney, 2000, p. 10 (detail), 196-7 (plate 151); Edmund Capon (foreword), Tim Storrier - Moments: in response to memories and ideas of mortality, Macmillan Art Publishing, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 130-1 (illustrated)
• Notes:
  Tim Storrier came to prominence at an early age, winning his first art prize at the age of 13 in 1962 and since then has gone on to win a raft of illustrious awards and commissions, including the Archibald Prize in 2012 and the Sulman Prize, the youngest artist to do so at 19. Storrier was recognised for services to contemporary Australian art in 1994 when he was awarded an Order of Australia. His work is included in numerous corporate, private and public collections, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the National Gallery of Australia and the National Gallery of Victoria. In Capricorn Setting, the shank of meat sits like an ironic cornucopia betwixt the sundry fruit and vegetables, with the floral garland spreading tendril-like alongside the tableau. This work resembles the set of a stage, one littered with classical and romantic connotations full of abundance, fecundity and religious offerings. The viewer is struck by the regularity of the clouds above and the deep cracks of the barren earth below, surmounted by the omnipresent horizon. Capricorn Setting was painted in the same year that Catharine Lumby's respected monograph on the artist was published and as such was given prominence in the book. It is also favoured with a double page illustration in the more recent Storrier monograph with the foreword by Edmund Capon, formerly Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Said Capon, '...his visions and sensibilities are acute responses to his place, to the flat landscape of Australia in which the horizon is low and the sky is vast.'1 Storrier employs a number of recurring themes in his work, including the traveller of exotic countries; burned offerings and mortality; and the provisions necessary for sustenance.2 Memento mori and the sublime are other enduring leitmotifs for the artist, whose work is redolent of the Dutch seventeenth century still life and landscape genres. Storrier has commented on his preoccupation with depicting the landscape, saying 'The seduction of the landscape for me has to do with the essentially romantic idea of the endless horizon.'3 Dr Shireen Huda 1 Edmund Capon (foreword), Tim Storrier - Moments: in response to memories and ideas of mortality, Macmillan Art Publishing, Melbourne, 2009, p. 9 2 Jenny Zimmer in ibid, p. 11 3 Quoted by Elizabeth Starks, 1993 and included in ibid, p. 116
• Estimate:
  A$45,000 - 65,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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