RICHARD LARTER

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 AUD

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Description

Richard Larter
SOFT FIX SYMPOSIUM
Signed and dated 72 lower left; signed, dated Jan 72 and inscribed with title on the reverse
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas
181 by 238 cm

Provenance

Watters Gallery, Sydney, 1990
Private collection, Sydney; purchased from the above

Catalogue Note

'The female figure occupies a place in his art not altogether dissimilar from the place of animals in the animal-and-interlace art of the Celts'. ¹

Richard Larter was born in 1929 and studied at the prestigious St. Martins School in London. After spending sometime in Algiers he arrived in Australia in 1962 with his wife Pat – who become his most popular model over the next 50 years.

Larter’s work draws from the popular culture, juxtaposing pornography alongside Disney characters and political identities of the day. Never scared to shock or upset his audience Larter has maintained his intolerance to the sexual hypocrisy of modern day society.

1. Smith, B., Australian Painting 1788-1970, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1971, p. 408.