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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Fine Australian & International Art
• Sale Date:
  02 May 2016 ~ 6.30pm - Part 1 - Lots 1 - 47
  03 May 2016 ~ 2.30pm - Part 2 - Lots 48 - 320
• Lot #:
  5
• Lot Description:
  Stephen Bush
  (born 1958)
  Woodstock 1996
  oil on canvas
  132 x 185 cm
  signed and dated verso
• Provenance:
  Private collection, Melbourne
• Exhibited:
  Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne 1997; Stephen Bush, Steenhuffel, The Ian Potter Museum of Art,; The University of Melbourne, 27 March to 6 July, 2014, cat. no. 18
• References:
  Stephen Bush, Steenhuffel, The Ian Potter Museum of Art,; The University of Melbourne, 2014, cat. no. 18, p. 29 (illus.)
• Notes:
  As a painter Stephen Bush is interested in examining the very notion of 'originality' and the manipulation of reality. Since the 1980s he has explored the history of painting through a range of archetypes, genres, narratives and schemas. His work has embraced aspects of Post-colonial history, Academic painting, Romantic painting, and American realism among other areas that have attracted his pictorial investigation. He has painted in monochrome and sepia, but increasingly his work has been animated by vivid colour. Bush is a painter of consummate skill and technical virtuosity, whose bravura with locating images in a vortex of swirling technicolour paint makes him one of the most exciting exponents of 21st century colour painting working today. Woodstock 1996 is an early work in his oeuvre - it comes from the period when Bush was focusing on the past world of colonial expansion and early rural economy, depicting farm machinery and other products of the industrial age that had become outmoded and superseded by 'progress'. It depicts an image of the Woodstock 'Electrite' typewriter manufactured by the Woodstock Typewriter Company of Chicago, around 1925. According to The National Museum of American History, the Electrite was advertised as a typewriter that made 'all typists experts'. 1 A reference to 20th century technology occurs also in Bush's Machine 1996, (Lot 123) which presents an electromechanical rotor machine used in the Second World War as a cipher device for encrypting secret messages. Frances Lindsay AM 1 http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_856502
• Estimate:
  A$6,000 - 9,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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