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.
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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
(Winfield Configuration)
Roger Kemp
c. 1974 - 1975
gouache on printed paper, 36.50 x 55.00
SOLD