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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Peter McMahon Collection of Contemporary Australian & International Art
• Sale Date:
  06 Mar 2016 ~ 2.30pm
• Lot #:
  115
• Lot Description:
  Robert Edward Klippel
  (1920-2001)
  Opus No. 811 1989
  wood and metal
  185 cm high, 104 cm wide, 67 cm deep
  inscribed to base: 83-17 MODEL AP
• Provenance:
  Watters Gallery, Sydney 1990
• Exhibited:
  Robert Klippel: Painted Wood Sculptures at Three Locations, Watters Gallery, Legge Gallery & Roselyn Oxley Galleries, December 1990, cat. no. 73; Cubism and Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, 21 November 2009 - 8 April 2010; The Gathering II - A Survey of Australian Sculpture, Wangaratta Art Gallery, 8 March - 11 May, 2014; Art & Furniture II, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, 9 April - 2 May 2015, cat. no. 15
• References:
  Robert Klippel: Painted Wood Sculptures at Three Locations, 1990
• Notes:
  In 2002, Edward Capon, then-director of the New South Wales Art Gallery declared, ÔRobert Klippel has neither peer nor imitatorÕ. Widely regarded as one of AustraliaÕs finest sculptors, over six decades Robert Klippel created some of the most original and innovative sculpture in the history of Australian art. Perhaps best-known for his compositions made from disused and discarded industrial materials, KlippelÕs works represent an intriguing fusion of art and engineering, an amalgam of organic form and the man-made object. The present sculpture, Opus No. 811 1989, is a part of highly productive and important period in KlippelÕs oeuvre, created during the 1980s. In the delicate placement of constructed wooden machine-like pattern pieces Klippel demonstrates his incredible ability to transform the everyday into the extraordinary. Klippel reflected of his practice that he felt an Ôunlimited potential of junkÕs unlimited vocabulary of forms.Õ?1 Throughout his long career, Robert Klippel remained dedicated to the exploration of the interrelationships between two and three-dimensional shapes, ultimately developing an encyclopaedic understanding of form. 1. D. Edwards, Robert Klippel, Sydney, 2002, p. 93
• Estimate:
  A$30,000 - 50,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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