David Jones, artist and poet (1895-1974) begins his PREFACE TO THE ANATHEMATA :

'I have made a heap of all that I could find.' (1) So wrote Nennius, or whoever composed the introductory matter to Historia Brittonum. He speaks of an 'inward wound' which was caused by the fear that certain things dear to him 'should be like smoke dissipated'. Further, he says, 'not trusting my own learning, which is none at all, but partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymous, Prosper, Eusebius and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons although our enemies . . . I have lispingly put together this . . . about past transactions, that [this material] might not be trodden under foot'. (2)

(1) The actual words are coacervavi omne quod inveni, and occur in Prologue 2 to the Historia.
(2) Quoted from the translation of Prologue 1. See The Works of Gildas and Nennius, J.A.Giles, London 1841.


18 April 2018

ME | YOU REGARDING GIRL AND BOY WATCHING ME PAINT


at d+h auction tonight :

Lot 100
DANILA VASSILIEFF
(1897 – 1958)
GIRL AND BOY WATCHING ME PAINT, 1949
oil on composition board
45.5 x 42.0 cm
signed upper right: Vassilieff

ESTIMATE: 
$8,000 – 12,000


ProvenancE
Private collection
Christie’s, Melbourne, 26 August 1997, lot 22 (as ‘Children Watching Me Paint, Fitzroy, c.1948’) 
Private collection, Melbourne
EXHIBITED
Paintings and Sculpture, a joint exhibition with Elizabeth Vassilieff, Tye’s Gallery, Melbourne, April 1949          
0il Paintings by Danila Vassilief, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, November 1978, cat. 64
LITERATURE
Moore, F. St J., Vassilief and His Art, Macmillan, Melbourne, 2012, cat. p264, p. 156
Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
 detail
 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something... 
         
 LOGOS/HA HA