PROVENANCE
Paul & Kerry Barber Collection Sold by Ron Sang at International Art Centre 15/10/1999 - purchased by Paul and Kerry Barber Ron Sang Collection until 1999

EXHIBITED Denis Cohen Gallery, 1974 Original gallery label affixed verso

Born in Wellington, Wong studied at Wellington Polytechnic College, for just one year, disillusioned with magazine reproductions and the works of international artists such as Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky with their emphasis on the spiritual and intuitive, the mesmerising skies of English Romantic, Joseph Mallord William Turner and the emotionally loaded and painstaking paintings of Andrew Wyeth. What has characterised Brent Wong's paintings is his meticulous technique, the heightened realism of his landscapes and the monoliths and labyrinths which have become his signature. For New Zealanders, these incredible combinations cast a familiar island nation into a strange and new realisation.