The densely patterned work glistens with gold leaf and looks both strangely modern and deeply steeped in the Italian Renaissance.
of company founder and owner Rod Menzies, in April, who would have been pleased to have five new Australian auction records set, for artists Dale Frank, Anne Wallace, Sean Scully and Helen Ogilvie, as well as Justin O’Brien.Sour the Boiling Honey
. The painting’s title is a line from the poem, and its central androgynous figure sitting on a throne-like chair is thought to be Wallace herself.With these literary allusions, it’s not surprising to learn that the vendors were a pair of well-known Australian writers, Sydney couple Louis Nowra and Mandy Sayer, who bought it from Darren Knight Gallery in 1992.
“We just work with what we have,” Ballard says. “We take pictures in and promote them as strongly as we can, and we achieve the best that we can.”
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