International Artworks in current stockroom

(alphabetically by artist surname)

Blackbox

Zadok Ben-David (b. 1949)

Blackbox2014

stainless steel painted butterflies, perspex box, fishing line

H: 130 x W: 130 x D: 20 cm, Diameter: 95cm

Essay

Blackbox is a small version of the installation “The Other Side of Midnight” a circle of 300 cm diameter where the front side features over 2000 hand painted stainless steel butterflies and the other side features insects. The installation is viewed in a dark room, lit by ultraviolet light projectors. Blackbox makes the circle glow in the dark and gives to it an impression of 3 dimensions.

Enquire

Winter’s End

Category: Contemporary International Sculpture

Zadok Ben-David (b. 1949)

Winter’s End2008

hand cut painted aluminium

Diam: 148.5cm

edition of 1

Essay

Zadok Ben-David is an internationally acclaimed London-based artist. Born in Yemen and raised in Israel, he studied at London’s St. Martin’s School of art, where he also taught from 1977-1982. In 1988 he was selected to exhibit as Israel’s representative at the Venice Biennale. His delicate, hand-cut painted aluminium sculptures play with shape and use strong lines and fine detailing to suggest growth, renewal and the connectedness of natural forms.

Enquire

Modiste Garnissant un Chapeau (Milliner Trimming a Hat)

Category: International Traditional Works on Paper

Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

Modiste Garnissant un Chapeau (Milliner Trimming a Hat)

charcoal on paper

44.5 x 55.6 cm

Provenance

Galerie Georges Petit, 3ème Vente Atelier Edgar Degas, Paris, 5th April 1919, Lot 400 Christie’s, New York, 14th November 1996, Lot 130
Private collection

Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale 24 June 2014. Lot 395

Essay

Modiste garnissant un chapeau is a preparatory drawing for the pastel (illustrated centre opposite) with the same title, which is in the collection of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris. The fine charcoal work (illustrated opposite page) was acquired from the artist’s studio sale by Ambroise Vollard, the most important French art dealer of the early twentieth-century.

Modiste garnissant un chapeau exemplifies Degas’ talent for capturing the elegance of a gesture and the beauty in a fleeting pose. His drawings, pastels and oils were regularly exhibited together at the Impressionist exhibitions. This work captures a dynamic yet graceful moment as a milliner trims a broad-brimmed hat.

Degas’ series of images of milliners at work first appeared in the 1880s. He would frequently accompany friends to their appointments, entranced by the dextrious modelling by the milliner’s hands as they trimmed hats with colourful feathers and sumptuous materials.

This magnificent work was recently exhibited in a groundbreaking touring exhibition at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco at the Legion of Honor that examined, for the first time, Edgar Degas’ fascination with the subject of millinery. The theme of hat-making represents a crucial area of Degas’ exploration of Parisian modern life and was a focus for his formal experimentation for more than thirty years.

Enquire

Port de Malabar

Category: International Painting Traditional

Charles Fouqueray (1869-1956)

Port de Malabarcirc

Oil on canvas

Essay

Charles Fouqueray was an exquisite colourist who worked in France and travelled extensively throughout the early part of the 20th century. Port Malabar and its companion piece Port du Canton reveal the artist’s fascination with the exotic artistic possibilities afforded by ‘the Orient’. He was a leading member of Academiedes Beaux Arts in Paris and also an official painter for the Navy Department. Fouqueray was awarded the 1909 Prix Rosa Bonheur and the First Prix Indochinein 1914.

Enquire

Port du Canton

Category: International Painting Traditional

Charles Fouqueray (1869-1956)

Port du Cantoncirc

Oil on canvas

Essay

Enquire

Panther

Category: Australian International Modern Works on Paper

William Kentridge (b. 1955)

Panther2017

lithographic print on Japanese paper

55.5 x 71.8 cm

edition 30/50

Essay

In 2016 the world renowned South African artist William Kentridge undertook the creation of a 500 meter-long frieze, which spread across the walls flanking the Tiber River in Rome. The artist portrayed dominant tensions witnessed throughout the city’s rich history. More than eighty figures, up to ten meters high represented Rome’s greatest victories and defeats from mythological times to the present, forming a silhouetted procession on Piazza Tevere. Panther speaks to that incredibly ambitious project titled Triumphs and Laments.

Enquire

Waterfall

Category: Contemporary International Large Scale Works

Hiroshi Senju (b. 1958)

Waterfall2018

acrylic and natural pigments on Japanese mulberry paper

paper signed and inscribed "Waterfall, H. Senju, 2018" on reverse

130 x 162cm

Provenance

Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong;
Private collection, Sydney

Essay

Japanese-born painter Hiroshi Senju is noted worldwide for his sublime waterfall and cliff images, which are often monumental in scale. He combines a minimalist visual language rooted in Abstract Expressionism with ancient painting techniques unique to Japan. Senju is widely recognized as one of the few contemporary masters of the thousand-year-old nihonga style of painting, using pigments made from minerals, ground stone, shell and corals suspended in animal-hide glue.

Senju’s work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; the Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan; the Yamatane Museum of Art, Tokyo; Tokyo University of the Arts; and the Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido. The Hiroshi Senju Museum in Karuizawa, Japan, opened in 2011 as a gallery devoted in its entirety to the artist’s work.