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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Elizabeth Durack (1915 - 2000) "A Singular Australian"
• Sale Date:
  22 Mar 2015 ~ 2pm (WA time)
• Lot #:
  10
• Lot Description:
  Elizabeth Durack
  (1915-2000)
  Rim Sequence IV c1980 from the series: The rim of our brittle and disintegrating world ... (1975-95)
  acrylic on linen
  122.5 x 157.5 cm
• References:
  Patrick ® Hutchings (ed) The Art of Elizabeth Durack, The Western Mail, Perth, 1981
• Notes:
  In a letter to Robert and Janet Holmes a Court (sponsors of the book) Durack writes of The Rim paintings: I had to find a new medium ... for the hurricane of the 70s that was upon us - sweeping all before it - uprooting, trees, people, shapes, forms, everything that was old and no longer serviceable. Everything that had once stood still - as though petrified - now levitated. Way out east of Mundiwindi - between Mundiwindi and Lake Disappointment - was where I felt the wind rising ...' p.17
• Estimate:
  A$2,000 - 3,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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