The Estate of Roger Kemp
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Roger Kemp
Untitled, 1953 - 1954
Price: $45,000
enamel on board
122.00 x 92.00
Provenance:
Exhibited:
Roger Kemp: Works from the Estate 1930s-1960s, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 7 - 28 September, 2019, no. 14
Literature & references:
see Patrick McCaughey, Roger Kemp: Cycle and Direction 1935-1975, 1978, exhibition catalogue, no. 39, 40 and 41 for related works;
see also Christopher Heathcote, The Art of Roger Kemp, McMillan, Melbourne, 2007, pp. 83 & 184 for similar works;
Charles Nodrum, Works from the Estate 1930s-1960s, Charles Nodrum Gallery, exhibition catalogue, 2019:
“In the mid 1940s there’s a dramatic change of palette. In the landscapes, day is followed by night, and from the dark nocturnes there soon emerged a purer abstraction that held sway through the 50s and into the 60s. Here, circles, cruciforms (and, later, bird-forms) appear and the symbolic aspect comes more to the fore: the circle epitomising balance and perfection; the cruciform, the human body; and the dove, flight and freedom. Composition board and enamel paints allowed for both a larger scale and for the more rigorous patterning for which he is probably best known.” (Nodrum, op. cit.)
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.