Acquired from the 1956 exhibition by Marjory and Arthur Richey; thence by descent in April 2010
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George Johnson
Toccata, 1954
Catalogue number: 9
enamel on board (in original artist's frame)
71.00 x 122.00
signed and dated 'Johnson 54' l.r.
George Johnson, Tasmanian Tourist Bureau Gallery, Melbourne, 1956 (his first solo show; this is one of very few remaining works extant)
C. Heathcote & J. Zimmer, George Johnson – World View, MacMillan, 2006, illus p 40 (installation shot of 1956 exhibition)
Exhibition Catalogue
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.