IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN ART

The exhibition will be on view in Sydney from Monday 21 August – Wednesday 23 August, 10 am to 5 pm, at 30 Queen Street, Woollahra.

Among the highlights of the sale is Rosalie Gascoigne’s spectacular Marmalade 1989-1990 (lot 21, estimate $600,000–800,000, pictured above).

Rosalie Gascoigne’s cunning formalist assemblages are made from many and varied objects – kewpie dolls, shells, enamelled metal utensils, thistle stalks, feathers, corrugated iron, linoleum, the worn timbers of apiary boxes, drink crates, cable reels and plywood form boards – but perhaps the most original and certainly the most popular of all her materials are the retro-reflective road signs.  Possibly inspired by the work of James Lee Byars and Jannis Kounellis, Gascoigne’s yellow and orange chequerboards first appear from the mid-1980s, concurrently with her Schweppes bottle-crate structures.  In these two complimentary bodies of work, the sawn squares and rectangles and strips create both subtle tonal harmonies across the picture plane and minimal, stuttering dada poems of words and letters.

We are honoured to present Rosalie Gascoigne’s magnificent Marmalade, one of the artist’s finest compositions ever offered for auction, from the collection of Cate Blanchett AC and Andrew Upton.

The auction will be held at the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia, 111 Queen Street, Woollahra at 6.30 pm on 23 August 2023.

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