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
The Electrical Engineer's Family
Edwin Tanner
1956
oil on canvas on composition board, 86.00 x 95.00
Positive and Negative - Construction No. 53
Edwin Tanner
1966
PVA, steel mesh and copper on board, 137.00 x 120.00
"I think that the river is a strong brown god - sullen, untamed and intractable" but wholly devoid of fish
Edwin Tanner
1972
pastel on paper, 76.00 x 56.00
SOLD
(Untitled - Emigration Series)
Edwin Tanner
1970 - 1980
pastel on paper, 44.50 x 50.50
SOLD
(Untitled - Study for an Astrological Mural)
Edwin Tanner
c. 1967
Pencil and ink on paper, 49.50 x 64.00
SOLD
(Untitled – Interior, study for a mural)
Edwin Tanner
1967
pencil and ink on grey paper, 49.50 x 64.50
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In thee we trust. ‘A’ Men
Edwin Tanner
1967
pen, ink, charcoal and gouache on paper, 76.00 x 55.00
SOLD
"I think that the river is a strong brown god - sullen, untamed and intractable" but wholly devoid of fish
Edwin Tanner
1972
pastel on paper, 76.00 x 56.00
SOLD
A religious drawing on the finest paper money can buy / the paper is french [therefore] this is a french letter by an honest engineer
Edwin Tanner
1971
pastel on paper, 50.00 x 65.00
SOLD
Home is where one starts from / jereckon?
Edwin Tanner
c. 1967
pastel on buff paper, 65.00 x 49.50
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.