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.


11 November 2020

TAR Landmark Event


Twenty Classics of Australian Art

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Important Australian and International
Fine Art

AUCTION TO BE STREAMED LIVE ONLINE
Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne
Wednesday 11 November 2020
7.00 pm
This specially curated auction, which places a strong emphasis on standout, high-quality Australian and International works of art from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, will be a landmark event.  

FIAPCE Fotos (see: Instruments of the Passion)  


The catalogue cover will illustrate Russell Drysdale’s major painting, Going to the Pictures, 1941, 

a masterpiece of Australian art.


“Drysdale as a consciously modern artist takes the rural motifs of the old guard and uses them for his own purpose, preparing the way for artists after him, for Nolan and Boyd,” Dr Heathcote says. “This is where modern Australian art starts to go somewhere different and takes on the old guard and beats it at its own game.”


The auction includes further, remarkable works by luminaries such as Streeton, Williams, Fairweather, Smart, Olsen, Audette and Upward and quintessential works of contemporary art by Gascoigne, Arkley, Onus and Quilty.


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Featuring a selection of extraordinary works, 

a special feature of the auction will be 

Twenty Classics of Australian Art.






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