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LIONEL BAWDEN
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 AUD
bidding is closed
Description
- Lionel Bawden
- UNTITLED WALLPIECE (SERENDIP SERIES)
Coloured pencils, epoxy, linseed oil
- 67 by 52 by 10cm
- Executed in 2003
Provenance
Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Private Collection, Sydney; purchased from the above
Private Collection, Sydney; purchased from the above
Exhibited
Artbox Inc., Sherman Galleries, Sydney, 2003
Condition
This work is in overall 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
Lionel Bawden was born in Sydney in 1974, and completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (with Honours) at the Canberra School of Art in 1997.
A finalist in the inaugural Macquarie Bank National Sculpture Prize at the National Gallery of Australia in 2001 and regular exhibitor in Sydney and Canberra, Bawden has also developed an international presence, showing in Dunedin in 2003 (Dunedin Public Art Gallery), Beijing in 2005 (Red Gate Gallery) and New York in 2006 (Gigantic Art Space). Bawden's work is held in a number of public collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, Artbank, Queensland Art Gallery and Newcastle Regional Art Gallery.
Bawden's sensual three-dimensional pencilscapes are a remarkable material invention, permitting infinite topological variety, rich colour and lapidary patterning. Twisting and carving, shaping and sanding organic forms from the rigid hexagonal geometries of Staetler coloured pencils, he produces scaley, nacreous 'monsters'1 which are at once environment and organism, sea and coral.
1. See Clare Lewis, Lionel Bawden: The Monsters, (exh. cat.), Grantpirrie, Sydney, 2004
A finalist in the inaugural Macquarie Bank National Sculpture Prize at the National Gallery of Australia in 2001 and regular exhibitor in Sydney and Canberra, Bawden has also developed an international presence, showing in Dunedin in 2003 (Dunedin Public Art Gallery), Beijing in 2005 (Red Gate Gallery) and New York in 2006 (Gigantic Art Space). Bawden's work is held in a number of public collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, Artbank, Queensland Art Gallery and Newcastle Regional Art Gallery.
Bawden's sensual three-dimensional pencilscapes are a remarkable material invention, permitting infinite topological variety, rich colour and lapidary patterning. Twisting and carving, shaping and sanding organic forms from the rigid hexagonal geometries of Staetler coloured pencils, he produces scaley, nacreous 'monsters'1 which are at once environment and organism, sea and coral.
1. See Clare Lewis, Lionel Bawden: The Monsters, (exh. cat.), Grantpirrie, Sydney, 2004