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Michael Zavros
Estimate
9,000 - 12,000 AUD
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Description
- Michael Zavros
- 3/4 PROFILE
Signed with initials and dated '02 lower right
- Oil on canvas
- 38.2 by 50.5 cm
Provenance
Art Gallery Schubert, Queensland
Private collection, Queensland
Private collection, Queensland
Condition
The work is in good original condition.
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
Catalogue Note
Michael Zavros was born in 1974, and completed his Bachelor of Visual Arts at the Queensland College of Arts in 1996. Zavros has received a number of awards and grants including the Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (2002), the Primavera Collex Art Award (2004) and he was a finalist for the Archibald Prize in 2006. His works have been included in contemporary survey exhibitions such as Primavera 2000 (Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney) and has also stage solo exhibitions at public galleries: Everything I wanted (Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2003-04) and Egoiste (Wollongong Regional Art Gallery, 2007). His work is held in numerous collectionsi ncluding Artbank, the Australian National Portrait Gallery, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Grafton Regional Art Gallery and Tasmanian Museum and Gallery.
Initially trained as a printmaker, Michael Zavros brings a printmaker's craft and discipline to the medium of paint, and his images are quite remarkable in their smooth, fastidious trompe l'oeil realism. Drawn from advertising and fashion photography, his grisailles of suits and shoes from around 2001-02 (his Old Money and New Money exhibition) provide a disturbingly clinical look at male power dressing, though the artist himself refuses to be drawn on their meaning: 'I kind of like the grey area... It's either a celebration or a condemnation. We come to corporate images with so much baggage, and much of its sinister baggage, so you can look at an image and conjure what you like.'1
1. Rosemary Sorensen, 'Buy into the drean', Courier-Mail, 13 November 2002, p. 23
Initially trained as a printmaker, Michael Zavros brings a printmaker's craft and discipline to the medium of paint, and his images are quite remarkable in their smooth, fastidious trompe l'oeil realism. Drawn from advertising and fashion photography, his grisailles of suits and shoes from around 2001-02 (his Old Money and New Money exhibition) provide a disturbingly clinical look at male power dressing, though the artist himself refuses to be drawn on their meaning: 'I kind of like the grey area... It's either a celebration or a condemnation. We come to corporate images with so much baggage, and much of its sinister baggage, so you can look at an image and conjure what you like.'1
1. Rosemary Sorensen, 'Buy into the drean', Courier-Mail, 13 November 2002, p. 23