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Godfrey MILLER
Crucifixion, c 1962
Oil and pen and ink on canvas – on studio panel, 36.5 x 53.5cm
Signed I.r.
JH 149
Provenance: John Henshaw

Reference
Deborah Edwards, Godfrey Miller, AGNSW, 1996, plate 71, p 86, 
for another, slightly larger variant;  and
John Henshaw, Godfrey Miller, Sydney, 1965, plate 28, for this work

Referring to the other Crucifixion (Holmes a Court Collection):
Miller was drawn to the Anthrosophical emphasis on Jesus, himself a Unity of the Divine and the Earthly, as a being of supreme humility and wisdom removed from the material institution of the modern church. Crucifixion is a highly schematised painting constructed along a series of cruciform grids which recede into dark space, portraying Christ as a flickering white light within the central circle, ‘exemplifying the artist’s absorption in the epic universal aspect of religious thought’
…. Miller’s breadth of conception and technical mastery places them among the most significant religious images produced in Australia.
Edwards op cit, p 52