The Landscape as Theatre (Opera) 1987
Pencil
29.6 x 19.6 cm
Signed, titled and dated
Provenance: Monica Maughan Estate
Exhibited: Shay Docking Drawings, Bridget McDonnell Gallery, 2006, no. 35
At Dunkeld, near the Grampians, Shay made a series of drawings based on the burnt-out weathered redgums
One of the artist's earliest works of a fire-gutted tree is dated 1945, when she was 17. (see plate 1, The Landscape as Metaphor, Prunster, AH & AW Reed) Forty-two years later she returns again to this motif
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