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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Peter Elliott Collection
• Sale Date:
  30 Aug 2015 ~ 6pm - Part 1 (Lots 1 - 193)
  31 Aug 2015 ~ 11am - Part 2 (Lots 194 - 340)
  31 Aug 2015 ~ 2pm - Part 3 (Lots 341 - 511)
  01 Sep 2015 ~ 10.30am - Part 4 (Lots 512 - 754) and 2pm - Part 5 (Lots 755 - 1013)
• Lot #:
  1
• Lot Description:
  William Francis (Bill) Robinson
  (born 1936)
  Dry Ridge 1991
  oil on canvas
  31 x 36 cm
  signed and dated lower centre: William Robinson 91; bears title verso
• Provenance:
  Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, 1992
• Notes:
  Robinson’s Dry Ridge of 1991 is very closely related to his major work, the almost eight-metre long triptych Creation Landscape: Man and the Spheres of the same year, which is in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Both works share aesthetic characteristics that vaguely suggest semi-cosmic implications; they seem to invite the viewer to “enter” the picture plane and then to become “enwrapped” in it.  The optically engaging characteristics of many of these semi-cosmic suggestions owe their origins to an unusual eye-opening experience. At some time during the early nineties, Robinson recalls looking downwards at a puddle of water and being mesmerised by the reflection of the sky, stars and trees in its smooth surface. It was as though there was something magical about looking downwards to see upwards – it was as though the simple reflected and contained the complex. There was something numinous, otherworldly and spiritual about this interaction between the microscopic and macroscopic and Robinson’s pictorial compositions changed correspondingly. From that point onwards his paintings tended to concentrate upon imaginary compactions of the landscape – as in his Dry Ridge of 1991. The overall distinction of his new “puddle of water” paintings centred upon their sense of inclusiveness in that parts seemed to stand for wholes. The small part at one’s feet stood in for the large part over one’s head. This is exactly the key that unlocks the strangely evocative power of his Dry Ridge of 1991. It has a visual centre, corresponding with its physical centre, which acts as the central source for its pinwheel of elements – trees above, trees below, sky, pulsing earth, clouds, leaves and fanned-out trunks – all radiating out in a giddy grasp of the “wholeness” of the Australian Bush. 
• Estimate:
  A$30,000 - 40,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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