Mirka Mora Collection, till 2019
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Donald Laycock
Neon Cities, c. 1960
oil on board
104.00 x 56.00
signed 'Laycock; l.l. and inscribed with artist's name and title on label on reverse
Provenance:
Exhibited:
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart (label verso);
Abstraction 19: painterly, textural and symbolic abstraction of the 1950s and 60s, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 2 - 23 November, 2019, no. 48
Literature & references:
Bernard Smith, Australian Painting, OUP, 1962, see plate 180, for ‘As it was in the beginning’ - a 1960 painting of slightly smaller scale, previously in the Aubrey Gibson Collection, and p 312 for the following:
“Laycock developed a rhythmical linear and part-accidentalist style, building his pictures into richly textured masses of colour, in a desire to create pictorial analogies for the dispersion of energy and the creation of matter. He was, if not the first, certainly one of the first among local artists to develop a coherent personal style from the abstract expressionist mode of invention.”
Further works by the Artist
(Ancient Kings series)
Donald Laycock
c. 1960
pen and ink and pencil on paper, 25.00 x 29.00
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.