The Estate of George Johnson
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George Johnson
Structure with Red, 1983
SOLD
acrylic on canvas
214.00 x 167.00
signed 'Johnson 83' l.r. and titled on artist's label verso
Provenance:
Exhibited:
George Johnson, Realities Gallery, Melbourne, 1983;
George Johnson: Triangle Rectangle Circle, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 26 June - 17 July, 2021, no. 16
Literature & references:
C. Heathcote & J. Zimmer, George Johnson — World View, MacMillan, 2006, illus p 57
Note:
Born in New Zealand, George Johnson (1926-2021) studied at Wellington Technical College and received an influential introduction to Bauhaus, De Stijl, constructivism and suprematism through the noted New Zealand modernist Theo Schoon. After moving to Melbourne in 1951, Johnson studied at RMIT University and, alongside artists including Roger Kemp and Leonard French, sought a universal, non-objective form of abstraction against the more personal and expressionistic work of The Antipodeans. From the 1980s his work focused exclusively on hard-edge geometric abstraction; usually employing triangles, rectangles and circles in primary colours on an off-white ground.
Further works by the Artist
Red Triangle Construction, No. 7
George Johnson
1988
acrylic on canvas, 152.00 x 213.00
Price: $35,000
Study for Reclining red triangles
George Johnson
1998
acrylic on linen, 26.00 x 50.50
SOLD
Study for Reclining red triangles
George Johnson
1998
acrylic on linen, 36.00 x 50.50
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.