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Lot 73

Brent Harris
(born 1956)
Painting Diptych No. 1, 1990 (each)

7 June 2016, 18:30 AEST
Melbourne, Armadale

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Brent Harris (born 1956)

Painting Diptych No. 1, 1990
signed, dated and inscribed verso: 'DIPTYCH NO 1 / B Harris 90'
oil on linen
38.0 x 30.0cm (14 15/16 x 11 13/16in).(each)

Footnotes

PROVENANCE
Karen Lovegrove Gallery, Prahran
Private collection, Melbourne


'The source of a curve - of "circularity" - is in one's body - not in the idea, "circularity", or "curvedness", and in my painted shapes every curve has its source in my body movements - or in my sense of them, my feeling of them. Every curve painted, I believe, is an analogue of some particular movement felt and sensed.'

Myron Stout (1908-1987), Myron Stout (exhibition catalogue)
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1980

The space of Stout's small black and white paintings define a more internal motivation than say the work of Ellsworth Kelly. This Series titled Body 1991 as with the smaller paintings of Untitled 1990 are in part a response to Myron Stout's work. These paintings are not intended to critique any historical model nor are they claimed to be a privileged view into an artist's soul. They do attempt a kind of personal expression of something sensed as a body space through a means as conventional as pictorial space.

Brent Harris
March 1992

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