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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Frederick McCubbin
(The Pool - Heidelberg - View of the Yarra River towards Richmond from below McCubbin’s house, Kensington Road), 1910
Price: $425,000
Catalogue number: 6
oil on canvas
49.50 x 75.00
signed and dated ‘F. McCubbin 1910’ l.r.
Provenance: Leonard Joel, 26 July 1989, lot 76; Private Collection, Melbourne; Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne; Private Collection, Sydney
Exhibited: A Happy Life: Frederick McCubbin’s Small Paintings & Oil Sketches, (no. 30, as ‘The Pool, Heidelberg’), National Gallery of Victoria, 1991 and touring to Ballarat Fine Art Gallery; City of Hamilton Art Gallery; Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston; Benalla Art Gallery; Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre; La Trobe Valley Arts Centre, Morwell until 31 October 1992; 19th & 20th Century Australian Painting Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 1 May - 7 June 1996, no. 10; 40 Australian Paintings, Savill Galleries, Sydney, March 2016, no. 17, as ‘The Pool, Heidelberg’; Fine Art Collectors’ Exhibition, 6 August — 17 September 2016, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, no. 26 as ‘View of the Yarra’
Literature & references: Clark, J., A Happy Life: Frederick McCubbin’s Small Paintings & Oil Sketches, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1991, p 6, 20 (illus), 22
Note: The poem ‘My Country’ published by Dorothea Mackellar in 1908 infamously described Australia as the ‘land of drought and flooding rains’. Since Mackellar penned her famous poem, Australia’s average temperature has increased by 1oC, with most warming occurring since 1950. Many Australians accept the concept of the nation’s weather as captured in this romantic poem, sometimes dismissing what we are experiencing now as just part of our natural climate cycles. However, in recent decades our country has been ravaged by an increased frequency and severity of extreme drought, flood and fires. As Australians we pride ourselves in our resilient spirit, but scientists now fear that the rate and severity of climate change may overwhelm our capacity to adapt to a rapidly warming world. This has started an important conversation in our society and governments to reflect on our understanding of climate change. Dr Joelle Gergis, April 2019
Exhibition Catalogue
Mt Etna from Taormina
Eugene von Guerard
1838
oil on canvas on board, 51.00 x 91.00
Price: $150,000
A Capriccio of a Mediterranean Coastal Landscape
Italian School, 19th Century
c. 1875
oil on canvas, 26.50 x 51.00
Price: $3,000
Winter Landscape with Skaters
Dutch School, 19th Century
c. 1850
oil on panel, 30.00 x 40.00
Price: $1,500
(The Pool - Heidelberg - View of the Yarra River towards Richmond from below McCubbin’s house, Kensington Road)
Frederick McCubbin
1910
oil on canvas, 49.50 x 75.00
Price: $425,000
(Central Australian Landscape)
Walter Ebatarinja
1955
watercolour on paper, 35.00 x 52.50
Price: $2,750
The Back Garden (The Garden)
Arnold Shore
1962
oil on canvas, 120.00 x 118.00
Price: $15,000
Part of Avonsleigh (Moonlight, Avonsleigh)
Charles Blackman
1955
oil on paper on board, 97.00 x 130.00
Price: $25,000
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Fred Williams
1974
oil on canvas, 106.80 x 91.50
Price: $300,000
Construction: Thomson River Dam under Construction
Michael Shannon
1984
charcoal and pastel on paper, 69.00 x 49.00
Price: $5,000