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Godfrey MILLER
Nude and the moon series,  c 1962
oil on canvas, 64 x 102cm
JH 14
Provenance: John Henshaw

Reference
For other nudes in the series painted in the early 1960s, see
Deborah Edwards, Godfrey Miller, AGNSW, 1996, plates 53 (AGSA), 
54 (NGV) and 56 (private collection)
Christies, Australian and European Paintings, Sydney, August 1998, Lot 1068,  
(from the Crebbin Collection, now in the Tarra Warra Museum of Art);
John Henshaw, Godfrey Miller, Sydney, 1965, dust jacket, and plates 8 and 33, 
and 9, 10, 15 - 17

These nudes have solidity but are not sensual …

Nude and the Moon is, as John Henshaw has claimed, a meditation on the idea of correspondence, the correspondence of sphere, breast, flower and moon, of hills, flesh and tree – that is of body and earth. It also sustains a correspondence of scientific conceptions and spiritual perception
Edwards, op cit