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Roger Kemp
(Figure in Action - Ballet Series), c. 1936 - 1940
SOLD
oil on card
38.00 x 49.00
unsigned
Provenance: Private Collection, Melbourne, since 1998
Exhibited: Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 27 May — 17 June, 1995, no. 11 (as ‘Figures in Action’)
Literature & references: see
Christopher Heathcote, The Art of Roger Kemp, Macmillan, 2007, p 43-46 for coverage of the late 1930s figure paintings
and
Patrick McCaughey, Roger Kemp: Cycles and Directions 1935-1975, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne 1978, plates 1-6 for related works
Note: The Ballets Russes toured Australasia in 1936/7 and 1938/9; Roger Kemp was highly impressed and made a pathfinding suite of abstracted expressionist studies, of which this work is an example.
Further works by the Artist
Untitled (Extending Figures)
Roger Kemp
1945 - 1948
enamel on board, 98.00 x 120.50
Price: $50,000
Untitled (Figures and Flowers)
Roger Kemp
1935 - 1940
oil on card, 39.00 x 56.00
Price: $25,000
Untitled (Figures and Flowers)
Roger Kemp
1935 - 1940
oil on card, 47.50 x 59.00
Price: $25,000
Untitled (Figures and Flowers)
Roger Kemp
1935 - 1940
oil on card, 54.00 x 86.50
Price: $37,500
Untitled (Dancers in Music Movement)
Roger Kemp
1935 - 1939
oil on card, 54.50 x 42.80
Price: $25,000
Untitled (Dancers & Music Movement)
Roger Kemp
1937 - 1940
oil on card, 42.00 x 60.00
Price: $27,500
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.