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Peter Powditch
Recess, 1969
SOLD
Catalogue number: 1
oil on board
244.00 x 122.00
signed and dated l.l.; signed, titled and dated on reverse
Exhibited: Peter Powditch, Gallery A, Sydney, March 1969, no 25, and Gallery A, Melbourne, October 1969, no 6
Literature & references: The exhibition was reviewed by Ann Galbally negatively in the Age, 29 Oct 1969 and by Allan McCulloch more positively in the Herald, 29 Oct, 1969 who wrote: He zooms far ahead of the competition because of his drawing, which has developed a sudden, knife-edged sophistication, that attains full control of the initial sexy impact. Because of this and the accompanying command of character, colour, scale, arrangement, and rhythmic convolution, the brassy, bold-eyed nudes miraculously transcend vulgarity.
Also by Daniel Thomas in the Sydney Sunday Telegraph, 23 March 1969 - referring to work of a similar period. He was also positive: His work, seen in scattered showings, used to repel by its rough handling of paint though it was remarkable to find a young painter so strong but so seemingly uninterested in abstract art. It looked like pop art, being Sydney surf girls bulging out of their bikinis or Hollywood moviestars.
Exhibition Catalogue
Composition 154
Robert Klippel
1963
welded metals (brazed steel, bronze), 33.00 x 40.00 x 6.00
(Untitled)
Clement Meadmore
c. 1960
welded steel on marble base, 36.50 x 30.00 x 17.00
SOLD
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.