Dr and Mrs Anwar Girghis (label verso);
Margaret Potts (Shirley Tanner's sister) till 1990;
thence by descent
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Edwin Tanner
Anubis, 1976
SOLD
acrylic on canvas
106.50 x 96.00
signed and dated u.l.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
Edwin Tanner, Powell Street Gallery, July 1972, no. 6;
Edwin Tanner Retrospective, The Age Gallery, Melbourne, 18 October - 29 October, 1976, no 86 (Girghis collection);
Edwin Tanner: Paintings 1952-1979, The Hughes Gallery, Sydney, 30 October - 25 November, 2014; Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, 12 March - 4 April, 2015, no. 26; 602 Melbourne, 17 August - 21 August, 2016
Literature & references:
Edwin Tanner Retrospective, exhibition catalogue, The Age Gallery, Melbourne, illus
Note:
Anubis is the Greek name of the jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religious practice and iconography.. This later painting can be seen as revisiting the theme of earlier works exploring the animate / inanimate divide, though with a post-modernist twist. The image is clearly appropriated, and is three levels away from the living “original”: it is a painting, probably made from an illustration, of a sculpture - of a dog. In spite of this distance in both media and time, he seems to be sniffing the air, ears pricked, watchful, perky and ready to spring into action: definitely not mummified.
Further works by the Artist
(Untitled – Three figures with two sets of grids)
Edwin Tanner
c. 1960
etching on paper, 2nd proof, 20.50 x 30.00
(Untitled - Two winking figures)
Edwin Tanner
c. 1960
etching on paper, 15.50 x 17.50
SOLD
(Untitled - Eight Heads)
Edwin Tanner
c. 1960
etching on paper, 15 x 17.5 cm, 15.00 x 17.00
Let all queues reverse / Coffin back to the Hearse
Edwin Tanner
1960 - 1969
oil, PVA and sand on board, 110.00 x 182.00
(Study for The Public Servant - office interior with milk bottles)
Edwin Tanner
c. 1953
oil on canvas, 66.00 x 61.00
SOLD
The Engineer's Workshop (Preliminary Compositional Study)
Edwin Tanner
1957
pencil and ink on primed linen, 91.00 x 122.00
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.