Lot #79 - Elizabeth Durack
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Auction House:Mossgreen
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Sale Name:Elizabeth Durack (1915 - 2000) "A Singular Australian"
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Sale Date:22 Mar 2015 ~ 2pm (WA time)
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Lot #:79
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Lot Description:Elizabeth Durack
(1915-2000)
In the Sun 1948
watercolour and pencil
52.5 x 72 cm
signed and dated 'Elizabeth Durack 48' lower ; inscribed verso -
Exhibited:Paintings: Elizabeth Durack Tye's Gallery, Melbourne, July 1949
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References:Tye's Gallery, Director's Catalogue notes, 1949: 'In these works there is a leaning towards the Oriental aesthetic ... the life of a ceaseless becoming ... the realisation of a law of harmony'. And from a letter by ED: 'Standing on a hill gazing down does one separate sharply one form from the other or define separately things so indisputably a part of each other ...?'
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Estimate:A$1,500 - 2,500
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Realised Price:
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Category:Art
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