Potter and His Model 1969
Ink and wash "The Potter paintings .. were intimate and biographical. They are poetic evocations of the early life of Merric and Doris Boyd, the artist's parents. Both had died: Merric in 1959, shortly before Arthur and his family left Melbourne, Doris a year later. Their deaths and the dissolution of the home at Murrembeena prompted works of a more private nature than any undertaken since the forties." The Art of Arthur Boyd, Ursula Hoff, Andre Deutsch, London, 1986, page 60 This drawing is similar to Potter Holding Plaster Head, plate 133
58 x 78 cm
Signed, titled on reverse and inscribed Given by artist to Barry J. Gordon on occasion of opening exhibition at Rose Skinner Gallery, Perth, 1969
Provenance: Barry Gordon, London
Item #4916
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