Estate of the Artist, 2017
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Anthony Underhill
Matriarch, 1964
Catalogue number: 18
oil on canvas
152.00 x 121.00
signed and inscribed on stretcher
Provenance:
Exhibited:
Hamilton Galleries, London (label verso);
Inaugural Exhibition, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh (label verso);
City of Bradford Art Gallery, 1965;
Annely Juda Fine Art, London (label verso)
Literature & references:
for a 1960 work, see Brian Robertson & Robert Hughes, Recent Australian Painting, exhibition catalogue, Whitechapel Gallery: London, 1961, plate XIV for ‘Moonbi’.
Note:
In 1948 Underhill left for England, where he remained for the rest of his life. In London his career as artist and teacher flourished. In the early 1950's he exhibited works in a more conservative, post-impressionist manner, at Mayor and Leicester Galleries. By the end of the decade his work had evolved towards the European abstract expressionism, examples of which were selected for Recent Australian Painting at the Whitechapel Gallery in London in July 1961; others were sent to Australian Galleries in Melbourne in 1959. The second exhibition in Australia, at Gallery A in 1965, focused on what Alan McCulloch describes (in his Encyclopedia of Australian Art, all eds.) as “...contemporary English painting, featuring faceless nudes whose forms were integrated with their surroundings...” After his death in 1977, his widow closed the studio, where the paintings remained until just recently, when the family decided to offer a small selection of works for sale, of which this is one.
Exhibition Catalogue
Mademoiselle Adrienne
Laureano Barrau
c. 1890
oil on canvas on board (A. Roche / rue des Batignolles), 33.00 x 24.00
The Icon of the Saviour (Image Not-Made-By-Hands)
Leonard Brown
2015
egg tempera, 24 kt. gold leaf & gesso on beech wood panel, 61.00 x 46.00
Female Torso
Godfrey Miller
c. 1950 - 1954
Bronze (base separate); ed 2 of 12, 17.00 x 7.00 x 7.00
SOLD
(Woman with flowers – Study for sculpture)
Sidney Nolan
c. 1980 - 1990
crayon on card, 122.00 x 152.00
Portrait of Mira, the Artist's daughter
Stacha Halpern
c. 1961 - 1962
oil on canvas, 73.00 x 54.00
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.