Lot 102
  • 102

Michael Riley 1960-2004 UNTITLED (BOOMERANG) FROM THE SERIES CLOUD

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 AUD
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Description

  • Michael Riley
  • UNTITLED (BOOMERANG) FROM THE SERIES CLOUD
  • signed and bears edition number 8/10 and year (lower left)
  • chromogenic pigment print
  • 85 BY 119CM

Provenance

Printed by Richard Crampton, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney, 2000
Private collection

Exhibited

Untitled (boomerang) from another edition of cloud was exhibited in Michael Riley: Sights unseen, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 14 July – 16 October 2006, Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, Victoria, 16 November 2006 – 25 February 2007, Dubbo Regional Gallery, Dubbo, and Moree Plains Gallery, Moree, 12 May – 8 July 2007 and 19 May – 15 July, 2007, respectively, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane, 27 July – 19 November, 2007, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 February – 27 April, 2008

Literature

Untitled (boomerang) from another edition of cloud is illustrated in: Brenda L. Croft et al, Michael Riley: Sights unseen, Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2006, p.137

Australia Council for the Arts, Australian Indigenous Art Commission, Musée du quai Branly, Sydney: Australia Council for the Arts, 2006, cover and p.38, illus.

Condition

The work is housed in a fine contemporary aluminium backed frame by FX, Sydney. The print appears in excellent condition.
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Catalogue Note

The cloud series, including Untitled (boomerang), was selected as part of the Australian Indigenous Art Commission for Musée du quai Branly, Paris, which opened in 2006