Estate of Michael Shannon
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Michael Shannon
Port Willunga Evening, 1985
SOLD
oil on canvas
76.00 x 152.00
signed and dated ‘Shannon 85’ l.l.; artist’s name and title inscribed on tacking edge verso
Provenance:
Exhibited:
Works of the same subject were shown at Powell Street Gallery in the 1980s (‘Port Willunga – Summer Morning’, ‘On the Beach – Port Willunga’ and ‘Winter Morning – Port Willunga’ all 76 x 182 cm)
Literature & references:
Graeme Sturgeon, Michael Shannon: Painting and the Poetry of Daily Life, Craftsman House, 1990, see illus p 111 and p 143 for works of the same subject (‘Port Willunga, Spring’, 1986, oil on canvas, 56 x 76cm and ‘Study for Summer Morning, Port Willunga’, 1986, Conte and pastel on paper, 42 x 89cm)
Note:
A work of the same subject and size (‘Port Willunga, Morning’) was a finalist in the 1986 Wynne Prize at the AGNSW and exhibited in The Painted Coast, Art Gallery of South Australia, May 1998.
Further works by the Artist
(Untitled - Urban Panorama)
Michael Shannon
c. 1959 - 1960
oil on canvas, 120.00 x 150.00
Price: $35,000
(Figures embracing in doorway)
Michael Shannon
1955
watercolour on paper, 30.50 x 46.50
Price: $2,200
Landscape, Broken Hill
Michael Shannon
1952 - 1953
watercolour and gouache on paper, 28.50 x 45.00
Looking across to Station Pier
Michael Shannon
1957
watercolour & gouache on paper, 28.00 x 36.00
SOLD
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.