March 2009 Issue 217
1 Parallel: TERRY WHITEBEACH
Eugenia Raskopoulos, Untitled 99/00 (detail), 1999/2000, six Type C photographs, 110 x 160cm each. Image courtesy the artist
2 Someone’s Universe: the Art of Eugene Carchesio: DAVID PESTORIUS
Eugene Carchesio, 187 works for the People’s Republic of Spiritual Revolution (detail), 1975-90, watercolour, pencil, collage, ink and pressed leaves on paper. 168 sheets ranging from 15 x 9cm to 22.6 x 17cm. Purchased 2002. Collection: Queensland Art Gallery
3 Why Orson Welles Matters: JOHN CONOMOS
Cover image for Jonathan Rosenbaum’s Discovering Orson Welles, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2007, 336pp
4 Festivals, Folk and contemporary art: PAT HOFFIE
Cassandra Schultz, Wombach after Bewick, Thomas, c. 1807, from the installation Pouch, the Antipodean Series, 2008, incense figurine (cinnamon wood paste), bell jar, rosewood base, rosewood and glass case. Exhibited in Carnal Carnivale. Image courtesy the artist. Photograph by Bruce Molloy
5 ReCoil: a Celebration of Fibre Art in Australia: CHRISTIANE KELLER
Kantjupayi Benson, Truck and Driver, 2007, grass, raffia, string, wool, wire, mesh, wheels, 112 x 190 x 75cm. Courtesy the artist and Tjanpi Desert Weavers
6 Danny Eastwood: a pretty potency: KERRIE KENTON
Danny Eastwood, My Reconciliation, 2008, pen, ink and watercolour on paper, 69 x 90cm. Image courtesy the artist. Photograph by Silversalt Photography
7 Letter: Contemplations at the end of time
8 From Fragonard to Kennard: René Gimpel - art dealer: DIANA KOSTYRKO
René Albert and Florence in the grounds of rue Spontini, Paris, ca 1916 (Gimpel family archives)
9 Shapes of purity & reality: an interview with Bert Flugelman: JAN JONES
Bert Flugelman, Cones, 1982, stainless steel, 450 x 2050 x 450cm. Installation view, National Gallery of Australia Sculpture Garden. Collection: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Commissioned 1976, purchased 1982. © Bert Flugelman
10 Monet and the Impressionists: ADAM GECZY
Pierre Auguste Renoir, Woman with a parasol and a small child on a sunlit hillside, c. 1874-76, oil on canvas, 47 x 56.2cm. Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, bequest of John T. Spaulding. Copyright Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
11 Freestylin’: artists’ books afloaT: LOUISE WAREHAM LEONARD, Brisbane
Tim Mosely, Mixed carton 1: critical theory in a box, 2006, artist’s book in slipcase: recycled cardboard, metal eyelets and plastic tape, 17 x 18 x 8cm. Collection: Australian Library of Art, State Library of Queensland. Image courtesy State Library of Queensland
12 AuctionNotes: TERRY INGRAM
At a sale of books and documents held by Australian Book Auctions at its rooms in Armadale on 1 December, this miniature portrait on ivory of Governor Thomas Brisbane (estimate $5000 to $10,000) sold at $65,000 or $75,725 with premium. The work was attributed to the British miniaturist Nathaniel Plimer (1757-1822) but the value was clearly in the sitter.
The Australian art market at the end of 2008 deflated as the financial world went into a tailspin. This, however, was not a problem for object and document makers – and their collector(s) – as museums and libraries replaced merchant bankers and hedge fund operators as the saleroom’s pro-activists. Read more in #217
Terry Ingram has written for the Australian Financial Review on the art market for forty years and still contributes to its Thursday Saleroom section
