Helena Rubenstein Scholarship, Art Gallery of NSW, 1963;
A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Donald Laycock, University of Melbourne, Sept 1972, no. 10;
Paintings from the Collection of Mr and Mrs Douglas Carnegie, National Gallery of Victoria, Oct 1966, no. 49;
Paintings from the Collection of Allen D. Christensen, National Gallery of Victora, Dec 1976, no. 26;
Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 17 March - 9 April 2011, no. 34
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Donald Laycock
The Oracle of the Sphinx, 1962
oil on canvas on board
182.50 x 122.00
signed l.l.
John Reed, New Painting 1952-62, Longmans (Art in Australia series) 1963, illus;
Michael Shannon, 'Margaret Carnegie - the Art Collectors 4', Art & Australia, Vol 4, No 2, Spring 1966, illus p 152:
"Laycock painted a series of Oracles -another is in the Mertz Collection. They are all monumental in scale and very compelling ..." Shannon, op cit.
They were a suite of five (the requirement for the Rubenstein) and were all the same size and theme - imaginary heads of ancient Egyptian and Assyrian aristocrats and despots. A variation on the theme can be seen in "Two Heads" (same size and medium) in the Monash University Museum of Art Collection.
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.