Cut Paper piece : 45 through to 90 degrees (from ‘An unfinished work’) 1969 (circa 2008)

A$2,500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Harcourt : the artist, circa 2008. Cut paper work on grey paper, 270 x 200 mm (image) in box timber frame measuring 455 x 365 mm. Unsigned as intended. A fine original conceptual work by the great Australian abstract artist Robert Jacks, sourced directly from the artist s estate. Between 1966 1971 the Melbourne artist Robert Jacks conceived of a series of works which existed in the form of mathematical instructions which could be articulated at different times, in the manner of Sol Lewitt s wall line drawings. These conceptual works were described in the artist s book An unfinished work , originally printed in New York during the artist s residency there, and later reprinted by the artist as the concept permits. Jacks would make various iterations of this instructional work, examples of which are in major Australian collections. In 2014 the National Gallery of Victoria staged a major retrospective of the artist s oeuvre. This exhibition represents the first large-scale retrospective of Robert Jacks who is one of Australia’s most significant and accomplished abstract artists. From his first sell-out solo exhibition at Gallery A in Melbourne in 1966, through to his ongoing exploration of abstraction in painting, sculpture, drawing and printmaking, his work has charted a distinctive and influential path through late twentieth and early twenty-first century Australian art. Born in 1943 Jacks studied sculpture at Prahran Technical College from 1958–1960 and painting at RMIT in 196

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