The Estate of Edwin Tanner
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Edwin Tanner
(Untitled - Eight Heads), c. 1960
etching on paper, 15 x 17.5 cm
15.00 x 17.00
unsigned
Provenance:
Literature & references:
Anthony Fitzpatrick, "Edwin Tanner: Mathematical Expressionist", Tarrawarra Museum of Art, 2018, exhibition catalogue, see illus p 59 for ‘In My Father’s House’, 1962
Note:
This etching is probably a precursor to the painting ‘In My Father’s House’. The genesis of the etching may have arisen at a time of family tension when his father – a member of the strictly fundamentalist Plymouth Brethren – had a serious falling out with the order which sadly led to a nervous breakdown.
In order to balance the etching, the top line of faces have a single leg pointing in one direction, while those on the bottom line have a single leg pointing in the opposite direction. The bottom line of symbols have appendages pointing in multiple directions. These faces and symbols were taken up in Tanner’s subsequent paintings
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
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.