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Lot 212
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ROSALIE GASCOIGNE

Estimate
90,000 - 120,000 AUD
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Description

  • Rosalie Gascoigne
  • SHEEP WEATHER ALERT 5
  • Signed, titled and dated Rosalie Gascoigne, Sheep Weather Alert 5, 1992-1993 on reverse of each panel

  • Linoleum on wood (diptych)

  • 78 by 240cm (overall)
  • Painted 1992-93

Provenance

Private collection, Sydney

Literature

Vici MacDonald, Rosalie Gascoigne, New Zealand: Regaro, 1998, p. 60-61, pl. 22 (illus)

Condition

The lino has become indented on the left hand side of the right panel where the board is vacant. This work is in overall good condition.
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Catalogue Note

'Somebody gave me a lot of that lino.  I couldn't stand the inferior red and green on it, which in theory were the colours, but the black and grey were good, so I tore it up by hand.  It turned out in a way like sheep shapes, if you saw a mass of them.  'Sheep weather alert' is what they say on the weather report.  It's a good name.  It means you jolly well get your sheep or you're going to lose a lot to the cold - it's a bitter winter climate here.  This is a misted over one: they're washed over, and it reads like shapes looming in the mist.  When you have shearing time round Canberra, the yards are full of sheep, the trucks are full of sheep, the hills are full of shorn sheep - sheep, sheep, sheep - you're just surrounded by it.  That was what I was after.'1

1.  Rosalie Gascoigne, 1997, quoted in Vici MacDonald, Rosalie Gascoigne, New Zealand: Regaro, 1998, p. 60

Included in this lot is a copy of  Vici MacDonald's book, Rosalie Gascoigne, signed by the artist.