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TIM McMONAGLE
Estimate
17,000 - 25,000 AUD
bidding is closed
Description
- Tim McMonagle
- CRABBERS
- Oil on linen
- 183 by 183cm
- Painted in 2006
Provenance
Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, Melbourne'; purchased from the above in 2006
Private collection, Melbourne'; purchased from the above in 2006
Exhibited
Tim McMonagle, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney, 5 May - 3 June 2006
Condition
This work is in good overall original condition. It is framed in a pale timber shadow box frame.
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"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
Tim McMonagle was born in 1971. He completed an Advanced Certificate in Art and Design at Western Metropolitan College of TAFE in 1990 and his Bachelor of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1994. He has participated in a number of group and solo exhibitions in contemporary art spaces and museums, including Seen something more (RMIT Project Space, Melbourne, 2001) and It's a beautiful day:new painting in Australia 2 (Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2002). McMonagle's work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, the Newcastle Regional Art Gallery and the John McBride Collection, Tokyo.
With their linear distinctive, linear-illustrative quality and their array of bathers, hammocks, thongs and dogs, Tim McMonagle's paintings initially proclaim a certain innocence of vision. Yet behind he ironically and photographically constructed narratives, McMonagle is something of a formalist. He always employs the challenging (for the artist, 'pure') square format, and demonstrates a particular concern for surface and points of transition. In the present work, behind the pinkly unblemished crabbers, the artist lovingly traces a sequence of horizontal bands, from patterned net to reflecting pools to the littoral blue and distant atmospheric headland.
With their linear distinctive, linear-illustrative quality and their array of bathers, hammocks, thongs and dogs, Tim McMonagle's paintings initially proclaim a certain innocence of vision. Yet behind he ironically and photographically constructed narratives, McMonagle is something of a formalist. He always employs the challenging (for the artist, 'pure') square format, and demonstrates a particular concern for surface and points of transition. In the present work, behind the pinkly unblemished crabbers, the artist lovingly traces a sequence of horizontal bands, from patterned net to reflecting pools to the littoral blue and distant atmospheric headland.