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Mine, all mine!

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The Contents of the Historic Homestead 'Wollogorang', Goulburn

Lot 52

Tom Roberts (1856-1931)
Study of a Dead Canary

oil on board, signed lower left and dated 1902

Measurements: 12.5 x 20 cm

Provenance: Mason Gray Strange, Australian & European Paintings, Sydney, 19/09/1988, Lot No. 111, The Collection of Janet and Graeme Webb, Wollogorang, NSW

Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000

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Three Views of Emptiness ] TAR in the gallery of C.T.Loo ( and One View of Emptiness

  

  Photographs by Nina Leen (1950) published in LIFE Magazine.

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deep see green

 
 The deep parts of my life pour onward,
 as if the river shores were opening out.
 It seems that things are more like me now,
 That I can see farther into paintings.
 I feel closer to what language can't reach.
 With my senses, as with birds, I climb
 into the windy heaven, out of the oak,
 in the ponds broken off from the sky
 my falling sinks, as if standing on fishes.
   
 Rainer Maria Rilke [1875-1926]

 Untitled Part 1

 1988

 Cy Twombly

 Untitled Part 9

 1988

 Cy Twombly

 Untitled (Bassano in Teverina)

 1985

 Cy Twombly
 

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Song to a See Gull

                              after Joni Mitchell

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TITULUM AVES VOLANTES

Watch birds in flight 
some are noisy
some are quiet

Label Birds 
distinctive formation
crier's incantation

Titulum Aves flight pattern   

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The Loaded Mind

The Loaded Dog (written by Henry Lawson, published 1901)

Plot summary from Wikipedia :

Three gold miners named Dave Regan, Jim Bently, and Andy Page are sinking a shaft at Stony Creek. The trio own a young retriever dog named Tommy, described as "an overgrown pup... a big foolish, four-footed mate." Andy and Dave, fishing enthusiasts, devise a unique method of catching fish using explosives. The dog picks up an explosive cartridge in its mouth, and runs the fuse through the campfire, prompting the three men to flee. Tommy, thinking it a game, playfully chases down his "two-legged mates," who try everything in their power to escape the cartridge. Jim tries to climb a tree and then drops down a mine shaft, meanwhile Andy has hidden behind a log. When Dave seeks refuge in the local pub, the dog bounds in after him, causing the Bushmen inside to scatter. Tommy comes across a "vicious yellow mongrel cattle-dog sulking and nursing his nastiness under [the kitchen]," who takes the cartridge for himself. A crowd of dogs, curious about this unusual object, gather around the cartridge. The subsequent explosion blows apart the yellow cattle-dog and maims numerous others. For half an hour, the Bushmen who witnessed the spectacle are laughing hysterically. Tommy the retriever trots home after Dave, "smiling his broadest, longest, and reddest smile of amiability, and apparently satisfied for one afternoon with the fun he’d had.".

We were reminded of Henry Lawson's danger dog and the after-laughter of his Bushmen of TAR when we first saw and mis-read/double-read this scroll-carrier scroll scene by Kano Tsunenobu.

Kanō Tsunenobu (狩野常信) (1636–1713) was a Japanese painter of the Kanō school. He first studied under his father, Kanō Naonobu, and then his uncle, Kanō Tan'yū, after his father's death. He became a master painter and succeed his uncle Tan'yū as head of the Kanō school in 1674. (Wikipedia)

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I TAUT I ( I THOUGHT I )

Tauts Arise 

 I taut I taw a puddy tat a-creeping up on me 

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 I did, I taw a puddy tat as plain as he could be

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Fool Moon

this night's full moon
Hakuin's little bird
on one branch

...I’ve appended in my teaching notes a comment by Chuang-tzu: “Even in the densest wood, the wren is content with one branch.” Isn’t that wonderful?! 

- R.P.

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World of Sport

Australian Geographic 

 A wedge-tailed eagle is driven out of a magpie’s territory with 
 some aggressive dive-bombing. photo Scott Turner

Here's one for our older Melbourne sports fans as Uncle Doug on World Of Sport (Channel 7) looks to next weekend's footy final between the Magpies (Collingwood) and the Eagles (West Coast).

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The See

If The Field were The Sea ...

Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 

'Twas sad as sad could be; 

And we did speak only to break 

The silence of the sea! 

All in a hot and copper sky, 

The bloody Sun, at noon, 

Right up above the mast did stand, 

No bigger than the Moon. 

Day after day, day after day, 

We stuck, nor breath nor motion; 

As idle as a painted ship 

Upon a painted ocean. 

Water, water, every where, 

And all the boards did shrink; 

Water, water, every where, 

Nor any drop to drink. 

The very deep did rot: O Christ! 

That ever this should be! 

Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs 

Upon the slimy sea. 

About, about, in reel and rout 

The death-fires danced at night; 

The water, like a witch's oils, 

Burnt green, and blue and white. 

And some in dreams assurèd were 

Of the Spirit that plagued us so; 

Nine fathom deep he had followed us 

From the land of mist and snow. 

And every tongue, through utter drought, 

Was withered at the root; 

We could not speak, no more than if 

We had been choked with soot. 

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks 

Had I from old and young! 

Instead of the cross, the Albatross 

About my neck was hung. 

- from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1834) 
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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above : 'The Field Revisited' at National Gallery of Victoria (2018)

below : An original c.1873 watercolour painting, Attrib. Keeley Halswelle RI ARSA, Venetian Boats.

A colourful study in watercolour showing Venetian bragozzo fishing boats, attributed to Keeley Halswelle RI ARSA (1832-1891). Halswelle was a painter of genre scenes and landscapes, and a watercolourist and illustrator. He painted quite extensively in Italy in the 1870s, and in particular Venice, having moved to Italy in 1869. He also had a fondness for boats, and in later life owned a houseboat on the Thames.

This charming small sketch captures the colour and activity of the Venice lagoon. It shows the boats’ decorated square lug sails, traditionally emblazoned with cabalistic signs or heraldic symbols. Sponges and natural dyes were used to paint the sails in bright colours, which would help preserve the material and make the boats recognisable at a distance.

- Text copyright © 2018 Somerset & Wood Fine Art Ltd. All rights reserved.

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An hour ago this was frozen | An hour ago this was frozen | An hour ago this was frozen | An hour ago this was frozen |

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The Great Thaw That Liberates!

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Jump! Again!

 Mind. Moon. Circle.
 Ryōkan Taigu (1758–1831)



 Ryōkan 
 Le moine au coeur d'enfant.
 The monk with the heart of a child

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Cosentient regard

We observe that we observe coincidences. 

Yesterday, we received via email links these two images below. Each a painting by a woman, each depicting a woman looking at a bird perched on her arm. 
                                            

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 Gloria Stoll Karn
 Woman and bird 

 1940s
 watercolor and gouache on board
 22 1/2” x 22 1/4”
 © Gloria Stoll Karn :

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 JOY HESTER (1920-1960)
 Girl with Cocky c.1957
 oil on paper on board
 unsigned
 titled and dated on Strines Gallery label (attached verso)
 handwritten 1986 certification of the painting by Albert Tucker 

   on a second label (attached verso)
 49 x 62cm
 

 Auction link here :
 PS  Sold for $322,400, setting a new auction record for Hester

  

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Everyone at Once or What the Worm Saw

A bird's-eye view is an elevated view of an object from above, with a perspective as though the observer were a bird, often used in the making of blueprints, floor plans, and maps.

      

It can be an aerial photograph, but also a drawing. Before manned flight was common, the term "bird's eye" was used to distinguish views drawn from direct observation at high locations (for example a mountain or tower), from those constructed from an imagined (bird's) perspectives. Bird's eye views as a genre have existed since classical times. The last great flourishing of them was in the mid-to-late 19th century, when bird's eye view prints were popular in the United States and Europe.

- Wikipedia  

LONDON — Sometimes, curatorial conceit need be nothing more than a conceit, a frame that occasions the presentation of stellar art. While lacking a sharp concept, the exhibition Everything at Once offers a bird’s-eye view of the global contemporary art scene’s ascendance, convergence, and rupture.

- full article here  

 Anish Kapoor, “At the Edge of the World II” (1998)
 photo by Jack Hems
, © Anish Kapoor, courtesy Lisson Gallery

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Michael Fullilove, Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy, addressed the National Press Club of Australia yesterday. His topic, 'Australia in the Trump era'.



He concluded his speech with this anecdote :

Ladies and gentlemen, I was last in the United States in January. I left just before Mr Trump’s inauguration ceremony.

I’m very fond of America. I admire its energy and its idealism and, for all its flaws, I believe the country does much more good than ill.

I have many friends and colleagues in Washington, which was once my home… and I didn’t want to be there to see what followed.

Because I left town before the twentieth of January I don’t have any first hand information for you on what Sean Spicer memorably described as, “the largest audience ever to witness an inauguration period, both in person and around the globe”.

But, I was part of that huge crowd on the National Mall in 2009 for President Obama’s first inauguration. And before the proceedings began in January 2009, I looked up to see a bald eagle, Americas’s national symbol, soaring and swooping over the Capitol dome. And I found this quite affecting, I’m a romantic by nature, and I turned to the stranger sitting next to me and I pointed this out to her.

But she turned out to be a very conservative Republican, and she said to me, “That’s no heavenly sign, that’s a trained eagle that the Obama campaign has put up in the sky to attract positive media attention.

Now, at the time, I found this world view merely disappointing. In retrospect, I see it as pretty disturbing. It was an early case of a new more dangerous strain of partisanship in which Americans are willing to ignore reality if it does not fit with their prejudices.

I was present, I believe, at the first instance of fake news : where I saw an eagle, she saw alternative facts.



And, ladies and gentlemen, this is the world, Trump’s world, in which the United States and Australia must now make our way. 

Thank you

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