BLUE WATER, 1977

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
30 November 2011
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ROSALIE GASCOIGNE

(1917 - 1999)
BLUE WATER, 1977

wood, ceramic, rubber, iron, printed tin and nails

21.0 x 56.0 x 12.0 cm

Estimate: 
$25,000 - 35,000
Provenance

Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
Private collection, Brisbane
Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited

Objects, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane, March 1977

Catalogue text

'Outstanding are the assemblages by Rosalie Gascoigne. Her imagination and sensitivity to beauty metamorphose humble, discarded things into marvellous, new creations. It has to be seen to be believed that she can create a thing of visual poetry with a weathered wooden box (she may have found it in a farmyard), containing an arrangement of Toohey's Bitter Ale tins.'1

1. Langer, G., ''Visual poetry' creations from collections of refuse', Courier Mail, Brisbane, 12 March 1977

We are grateful to Martin Gascoigne for his assistance with this catalogue entry.