Private Collection, Mclean, NSW
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Elwyn Lynn
Pompeii, 1961
mixed media on canvas
96.00 x 137.00
unsigned, label on reverse 'Pompeii / Elwyn Lynn /100 gns / Double Bay, NSW'
Provenance:
Exhibited:
Contemporary Artists Society, David Jones Gallery, Sydney, 8 March, 1961;
6th Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil, September 1961, no 37, together with no 38, Herulaneum. (fellow exhibitors were Feuerring, Gleeson, Glaeghorn, Gilliland, Hill, Hinder, Laverty, Lewers, McDonald, Ogburn, Plate, Rapotec, Sharp, Stockdale, Warren, Watson and Salkauskas);
Water, Soil and Life, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 4 - 25 May, 2019, no. 40
Literature & references:
Robert Hughes, The Art of Australia, Pelican, 1966, p. 305:
“Late in the fifties, texture-painting received some impetus in Sydney. While Frank Hodgkinson, in Majorca, was influenced by the Spanish painters, other artists picked up the style from art magazines and their own visits to Europe. The most prominent of these was Elwyn Lynn who began to work in hard pastes and collage after a trip to Europe and the USA in 1959.”
Note:
6th Bienal de São Paulo (1961) - Director: Mário Pedrosa.
Ciccillo Matarazzo ceases to be the main patron of the Bienal and the exhibition endured its first financial crisis. The 6th edition is remembered for its museology and the predominance of Neoconcretism, typified by the revolutionary presence of Lygia Clark’s Bichos. Furthermore, part of the selection committee was elected by artists. The Bienal received a delegation from the USSR for the first time in the event’s history.
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.