Private Collection, Melbourne, since 1998
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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:
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 1930's 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 Study
Roger Kemp
c. 1970
Felt pen and coloured inks on paper, 38.00 x 55.00
Price: $4,000
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.