UNTITLED, 2003

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
6 May 2015
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PADDY NYUNKUNY BEDFORD

(c.1922 - 2007)
UNTITLED, 2003

ochres and pigment with synthetic binder on composition board

79.0 x 98.0 cm

inscribed verso upper right: PB-CB-8-2003-3 / PADDY BEDFORD / JIRRAWUN ARTS

Estimate: 
$30,000 - 50,000
Sold for $54,000 (inc. BP) in Auction 39 - 6 May 2015, Melbourne
Provenance

Jirrawun Arts, Kununurra, Western Australia
Private collection, Queensland

Literature

Storer, R., Paddy Bedford, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2006, p. 160 (illus.)

Catalogue text

'Innovation and experimentation are fundamental to Paddy Bedford's practice as a contemporary artist. The appeal of his work to international audiences and contemporary art collectors worldwide rests in part on this sense of continuous innovation that resulted in a new exciting visual vocabulary that does not compromise Gija law and tradition and which resists comparison with modern Western art canons. His formal language, typified by a symbiosis between bold and powerful forms and an elegance and harmony in composition, evokes rock escarpments and other amorphous features of the Kimberley landscape.'

Petitjean, G., 'Paddy Bedford', Beyond Sacred; Aboriginal Art, The Laverty Collection, Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 2014, p. 27