Deutscher Brunswick Street, Melbourne, 1990;
Chris and Marianne Wallace-Crabbe;
Deutscher Menzies, 8/9/2004, Lot 29;
Private Collection, Melbourne since then.
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Peter Booth
Painting (Dark Seascape), 1989
SOLD
oil on linen
112.00 x 198.00
signed & dated on reverse; title on label verso
Provenance:
Exhibited:
Peter Booth: Recent Paintings, Deutscher Brunswick Street, Melbourne, 19 April - 12 May, 1990, no. 14;
Art & Furniture II, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 9 April - 2 May, 2015, no. 11
Literature & references:
Lindsay, R. ‘Peter Booth: One Hundred Years of Solitude — The New Ice Age’ in Peter Booth: Recent Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Deutscher Brunswick Street, Melbourne, 1990;
Lindsay, R., ‘Hard Rain: The Iconography of Peter Booth’, in Peter Booth: Human / Nature, National Gallery of Victoria, retrospective exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, 2003, p 23:
“In sombre works like Painting (Dark Seascape), 1989, the slow viscous waves of sludge, like coagulating heartbeats of an environment overladen with pollution, congeal on the sulphurous shore. In Greek mythology, the Golden Age is followed by the Silver Age and the Bronze Age, while in his great didactic poem Theogony (8th Century BC), Hesiod states that the Bronze Age is followed by a fourth age — the Iron Age: an age of conflict, misery and crime, ‘when men respect neither their vows, nor justice nor virtue. In our hubris have we constructed technological towers of Babel to reach Heavens — we speak in different tongues, watch the performers and hear not cries of others’ pain.’” Lindsay, op cit ‘Hard Rain.’
Further works by the Artist
Drawing (landscape with pyres of purification)
Peter Booth
1983
pastel on paper, 56.00 x 150.00
Drawing (landscape with pyres of purification)
Peter Booth
1983
pastel on paper, 56.00 x 150.00
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.