Muriel Macqueen; thence by inheritance
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Mary Macqueen
Ash Wednesday, 1983
SOLD
ink, charcoal, chalk and gouache on paper,
58.50 x 90.50
titled, dated and initialled l.c. and bearing inscription on reverse
Provenance:
Exhibited:
Mary Macqueen - Paper Works 1968-1988 - A Survey, Powell Street Gallery, 11-30 June 1988, no. 10 (label verso)
Literature & references:
Mary Macqueen - Paper Works 1968-1988 - A Survey, Powell Street Gallery, 1988, exhibition catalogue, illus p 11
Note:
Bushfires, like all natural disasters, can evoke a sense of awe and fear that in turn engenders curiosity. This potent mixture clearly affected Mary Macqueen who visited the south coast of Victoria after the Ash Wednesday bushfires of 1983. The most appropriate medium - charcoal - is literally at hand and this work was possibly made with the actual remains of the trees recently burnt. However, whilst its unusually large scale suggests it may not have been drawn on the spot, its eerie darkness strikes a sombre chord.
Further works by the Artist
(Pigs at trough)
Mary Macqueen
colour screenprint on paper, edition 99/100, 38.00 x 55.00
Price: $750
Untitled - the coast of Alaska
Mary Macqueen
gouache and fabric collage on paper, 64.00 x 75.00
Mutilations Bangladesh
Mary Macqueen
1976
lithograph in two colours on paper, ed 2nd state 4/5, 56.50 x 67.00
(Sailing boats, Swan River, Perth)
Mary Macqueen
c. 1976
pastel and coloured pencil on paper, 26.50 x 34.00
SOLD
Kenten Province, Sumatra
Mary Macqueen
c. 1975
watercolour and pencil on paper, 26.00 x 38.00
Landscape with Boats and Jetties
Mary Macqueen
1970
watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper, 30.60 x 45.00
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.