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YVONNE AUDETTE
Description
- Yvonne Audette
- STORM HIT THE LOADING CABLE AT VICTORIA DOCK
Signed and dated lower right; signed and dated 1989 twice on the reverse; inscribed with title on the reverse; signed and dated on label on the reverse
Oil on canvas
- 147.5 by 187.2 cm
Provenance
Lyttleton Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne; purchased from the above in 1989
Exhibited
Yvonne Audette, Lyttleton Gallery, Melbourne, October 1989, cat. 13, illus.
Literature
Christopher Heathcote, Bruce Adams, Gerard Vaughan & Kirsty Grant, Yvonne Audette: Paintings and Drawings 1949 - 2003, Macmillan, Melbourne, 2003, pl. 148
Catalogue Note
The lively, almost vigorous movement of The Storm Hit the Loading Cable at Victoria Docks, 1989 had its beginnings in visits Yvonne Audette made to the Melbourne docks at this time. Busily sketching around the wharves, she was fascinated and excited by all the activity - of ships, boats, cranes and cargo, the movement of everything, including the waters and the wind. Pictorially and aesthetically, Audette was absorbed by how she could visually interpret what she saw and still retain the abstract idiom. She loved the cranes, and watching the loading and unloading of the ships. Once, getting too close, she was warned by a docker to move away as there was always a danger of the cables breaking. Fortunately it did not happen while she was there; but hearing about it inspired this painting in which the vast field of blue in motion is enlivened even further by energetic brushwork, dark sweeping lines, and interjections of contrasting oranges, reds and white.