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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen-Webb's
• Sale Name:
  The Peter Jarvis & Helene Phillips Collection
• Sale Date:
  30 Nov 2017 ~ 6.30pm (New Zealand Daylight Time)
• Lot #:
  13
• Lot Description:
  Ian Scott
  Sun Grille
  acrylic on canvas, 1975
  1730mm x 915mm
  signed IAN SCOTT, inscribed SUN GRILLE and dated August, '75 in ink verso
• Provenance:
  Purchased from the artist, July, 2001.
• Notes:
  ESSAY: Sun Grille is a bold, reductive abstract work composed of intensely coloured, vertical lines, laid down quickly and decisively against a white ground on raw canvas. This sophisticated work was made with everyday materials: specifically, acrylic paint applied with a roller and spray paint purchased from the local hardware store. This kind of paint is usually employed to revamp the kids’ Raleigh Twenty bikes or outdoor furniture that has seen one too many summers. Blurred lines made by the act of spray painting breathe and vibrate against the white ground of the picture plane. The eye skates across the surface, evaluating the pulsating primary colours, the spaces in between and the fractional variance in line width. Scott achieved this delicate variance by intuitively adjusting the height at which the spray can was positioned above the canvas. The work is a not purely abstract; it is infused with Scott’s lifelong affection for the New Zealand landscape and his search for a meaningful way in which to depict it in a manner that was challenging and new. It was a response to his immediate environment, which, at the time, was Sunnyvale, West Auckland, in the 1970s. The glare of the summer sun, mid-1970s West Auckland, apple orchards, bright green grass, freshly painted weatherboard houses, sand, surf and sensuality are palpably present in these perpendicular bars of light. The Sprayed Stripes series (1973–75) was first exhibited at Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington, in 1974, then at Petar/James Gallery in Auckland in 1975. This series comes after Scott’s 1960s’ pop culture Girlie series and was a precursor to his seminal Lattice works. Kate Srzich
• Estimate:
  NZ$15,000 - 20,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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