37. Geoff Thornley b. 1942
Untitled No. 2
est. $8,000 - 12,000
Untitled No. 2
Mixed media
110 x 110 cm
Signed, inscribed & dated 1978 verso
110 x 110 cm
est. $8,000 - 12,000
Fetched $9,000
Relative size
Provenance:
Purchased from Petar James Gallery, Auckland 1978
Fletcher Trust Collection
Untitled No. 2 marks a return to single frame painting on canvas at the time the artist was involved with his Construction works. This is nothing unusual for Thornley who often indulged in what he calls side by side production as a means of resolving or extending a debate between rival aesthetic methods. Thus Untitled No. 2 shares some of the qualities of confinement and concreteness of the Constructions while also alluding back to the more purely painterly work of an earlier period.