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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian + International Fine Art
• Sale Date:
  26 Aug 2015 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  21
• Lot Description:
  Howard Taylor
  (1918 – 2001)
  Study For Mural, 1955-56
  gouache and shaped steel wire on jarrah wood
  46.0 x 34.0 cm
  Artist’s label attached verso signed and inscribed: “STUDY FOR MURAL” / H.H.TAYLOR / ALDERSYDE” / W.A.
• Provenance:
  Acquired directly from the artist Private collection, Perth Thence by descent Private collection, Perth
• Notes:
  The following excerpt is quoted from Howard Taylor: Phenomena, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2003, p. 41 ‘During 1955-56 Taylor began not only to make sculpture but also to include three-dimensional objects of his own design as subject matter in his paintings. His first solo exhibition to include both paintings and sculpture was organised in 1957. The sculptures reveal his initial attempts at integrating his background of assembling objects from multiple parts with the magnitude of forms found in the bush: When I first started making things I had this background of aeroplane structure – you make a plane and you cover it, that sort of thing. But I also found, in looking at the fragments of trees around, that I became interested not only in the outer structure of a tree but also in its inner structure … The tree has always fascinated me as a unit, from the roots upwards through the trunk to the branches, through the forks to the outer flowering top.’
• Estimate:
  A$18,000 - 24,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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