Garry shead biography of rory
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Aboriginal 1992
GARRY SHEAD born 1942
Aboriginal 1992
oil on board
91.0 x 121.5 cm; 93.5 x 124.0 cm (framed)
signed and dated lower left: Garry Shead 92
bears inscription on stretcher verso: ABORIGINAL
Provenance:
(probably) Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney
Estate of the above
Reference:
Grishin, S., Garry Shead: The D.H. Lawrence Paintings, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1993, p.48, pl.15 (illus.)
Estimate: $50000 - 70000
D.H. Lawrence’s novel Kangaroo has continued to captivate the Australian imagination more than a century after its first publication in 1922. Written by Lawrence during a brief stay in Australia, Kangaroo is a semi-autobiographical tale filled with Lawrence’s vivid perspective on the Australian way of life, the physical landscape, and the rising political undertones of nationalism brewing in the aftermath of World War I.
In 1922, Lawrence landed in Fremantle, Western Australia, where he was repelled by the new and unfamiliar surroundings, characterising the bush and Australian wildlife as untrodden and strange. Lawrence would later find refuge in Thirroul, a small seaside coal mining outpost south of Sydney where he would write the first 300 pages of the novel over a period of six weeks. In h
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