Estate of Michael Shannon
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Michael Shannon
Luna Park, 1957
oil on board
122.00 x 61.00
signed ‘Shannon’ l.l.; inscribed faintly in chalk ‘Luna Park / Michael Shannon / McCaughey (?) Prize’ on reverse
Provenance:
Exhibited:
Michael Shannon, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 24 February, 1959, no. 7;
Michael Shannon, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 29 February – 11 March, 1960, no. 4;
Michael Shannon, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 12 – 24 October, 1960, no. 8;
Michael Shannon: A Wintersun Festival Exhibition reviewing selected works painted during the past thirteen years, Mildura Arts Centre, July 1969, no. 4;
Michael Shannon: Painting and the Poetry of Daily Life, Powell Street Gallery, 8 – 27 September, 1990;
Luna Park and the Art of Mass Delirium, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 8 December 1998 - 21 March, 1999;
Michael Shannon: Australian Romantic Realist, Art Gallery of Ballarat, 10 December 2011 – 12 February, 2012
Literature & references:
Graeme Sturgeon, Michael Shannon: Painting and the Poetry of Daily Life, Craftsman House,1990, illus p 59 (plate 5);
Gary Catalano, 'Volatile mood in art', The Age, September, 1990, Powell Street exhibition review, illus p 14;
Warwick Reeder, Stephanie Holt, Julia Murray, Jennifer Phipps, Ian McDougall, Sam Marchall, Luna Park and the Art of Mass Delirium, exhibition catalogue, Heide MOMA, Melbourne, 1998, illus p 32;
Gordon Morrison, Elizabeth Cross, Ronald Miller, Patrick McCaughey, Michael Shannon: Australian Romantic Realist, retrospective exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of Ballarat, 2011-2012, illus p 47;
Andrew Stephens, 'Urban vistas herald quiet genius', The Saturday Age, 21 January, 2012, Ballarat exhibition review, illus p 23
Further works by the Artist
(Untitled - Urban Panorama)
Michael Shannon
c. 1959 - 1960
oil on canvas
, 120.00 x 150.00
Price: $35,000
(Figures embracing in doorway)
Michael Shannon
1955
watercolour on paper, 30.50 x 46.50
Price: $2,200
Landscape, Broken Hill
Michael Shannon
1952 - 1953
watercolour and gouache on paper, 28.50 x 45.00
Looking across to Station Pier
Michael Shannon
1957
watercolour & gouache on paper, 28.00 x 36.00
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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.