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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian + International Fine Art
• Sale Date:
  26 Aug 2015 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  22
• Lot Description:
  Howard Taylor
  (1918 – 2001)
  Maquette For Stick Insect, 1957
  tenon jointed and nailed jarrah wood
  63.0 x 16.0 x 8.0 cm
  Related Work: Stick Insect, 1958, scorched jarrah and steel bolts, 255.0 x 65.5 x 39.5 cm, collection of Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
• Provenance:
  Acquired directly from the artist Private collection, Perth Thence by descent Private collection, Perth
• References:
  Dufour, G., Howard Taylor: Phenomena, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 2003, p. 41
• 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 ‘Taylor’s response to the description of volumes, in both the paintings and sculpture, consists of exposing them as intelligible structures. An early example is the stick-insect subject, first developed in Creature 1955. The conoidal form of the subject, comprising both a cone and a suggested spiral movement, establishes its palpability through the implied spatial extension of a basic tripod structure. Creature can be considered as the initial emergence of what Taylor develops in later works as ‘forest figures’. The first use of the ‘stick insect’ as a subject for a sculpture occurs with Stick Insect 1958. This work retains many of the characteristics introduced in Creature, despite the cone shape being replaced by a central cylinder with projections. The stick-insect sculptures are basically volumetric forms, the volume being maintained in each case through schematic approximations. The paintings and sculptures from this period informed by a particularly British attitude to the surrealist object, with its penchant for a found object extracted from the landscape.’
• Estimate:
  A$20,000 - 30,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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