DAVID BOYD

Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
Private Collection, Brisbane; purchased from the above in 1976

David Boyd, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, July 14 - August 10 1976, cat 4

This work is presented in its original timber frame with a velvet slip. There are some minor fly spots to surface and general surface dirt on the impasto areas consistant with the painting's age. Overall good original condition.
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"Boyd's work, even at its most melancholic, has always had an innocence about it, which is very strongly present in the childhood series, where groups dance in the heather, where a child converses in the desert with an angel, where children play on the seashore and dream in a garden...Boyd unites the myth of Europa and the Wanderer King with the life of the Australian aborigines, making a series of ikons [sic] of tremendous power." 

^{1. David Boyd, Philip Bacon Galleries, July 14-August 10, cat 4, np}