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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Arthur Boyd
Forest Sketch no 2, 1976 - 1977
SOLD
Catalogue number: 20
watercolour on paper
27.50 x 22.50
signed 'Arthur Boyd' l.r. and titled on reverse
Provenance: Christies, 27 November 2000, lot 110, as ‘Shoalhaven River’; Private Collection, Melbourne, since then
Literature & references: Joelle Gergis, Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia, MUP, 2018, p. 240: "Research by renowned Australian ecologist Lesley Hughes has found that 53 per cent of the 800 species of Australian eucalypts have climatic ranges that can tolerate less than 3 degree shifts in average temperatures, while only 25 per cent of species survive wthin 1 degree of their current range.”
Note: The painting had been laid on board but not glazed - and had also been discoloured by tobacco smoke. It has been taken off the backing, cleaned, glazed and archivally mounted. During this process, the title was revealed.
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
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Michael Shannon
1984
charcoal and pastel on paper, 69.00 x 49.00
Price: $5,000