Gift of the artist to Jennifer Phipps; her sale Mossgreen 2016, private collection since then.
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Guy Stuart
Canvas roll, c. 1973
pastel on paper
101.00 x 65.00
signed and titled on label verso "33 / Canvas Roll / Guy Stuart / Julie St / Abbottsford
Provenance:
Exhibited:
Guy Stuart - A Brief Retrospective, Heide Park and Art Gallery, 10 June - 25 July 1982, no 33
Literature & references:
Maudie Palmer, Guy Stuart - A Brief Retrospective, exhibition catalogue, Heide Park and Art Gallery, 1982; a copy of the catalogue is included with the painting.
Reference:
Frances McCarthy & Daniel Thomas, Recent Australian Art, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1973 - see p 67 for a studio portrait of the artist with a similar work in the background.
Note from the artist:
... back in 1970 sometimes the paintings got a little bit lost and I would take the canvases off the stretchers, and the drawing of one of these is the drawing you [have].
Note re the work
It has a visual affinity with the three works by Victor Majzner painted at about the same time, yet quite different in source and, to a degree, intent.
Majzner's were inspired by socially cherished, finely crafted, and hence valuable fabrics carefully displayed in museums; Stuart's eye was arrested by the way the rejected canvases he had tossed into a corner took on a form that seemed to have a life of its own - and hence worthy of attention.
Further works by the Artist
Since its establishment in 1984, the Charles Nodrum Gallery’s exhibition program embraces a diversity of media and styles - from painting, sculpture & works on paper to graphics and photography; from figurative, geometric, gestural, surrealist & social comment to installation & conceptually based work.