ABC National TV News Boyd video

Arthur Boyd Australia's most famous 20th century artist, moved Australian art to attention of the outside world and the international arena. His art established a substantial part of Australia's legacy along with David Boyd, Drysdale, Charles Blackman, John Perceval, Nolan, John Brack, Robert Dickerson and Clifton Pugh. They are the most important legendary Australian artists who dominated Australian contemporary art scene since the Antipodean Manifesto in 1959. John Olsen, Ray Crooke, Andrew Sibley and Gary Shead are important Australian artists who strongly influenced an modern Australian art scene. Galeria Aniela vision to promote Australian art is well acknowledged, we acquire top-quality art by significant artists, televised and illustrated in biographical books

Shoalhaven at Sunset

Artist:  ARTHUR BOYD (1920-1999)  
Title:  Shoalhaven at Sunset - the prestigious & small “Shoalhaven Twilight” series
Medium: oil on copper
Image Size: 30.2 x 22.5cm
Signed Lower right: ARTHUR BOYD

Similar Boyd painting "Shoalhaven at Dusk" Oil on copper, 30 x 21cm valued $60,000-$80,000  Joel Fine Art lot No: 56, 30 October 2007.

NOTES:
Themes of love and death, sin and redemption, beauty and terror, preservation and destruction are consistently apparent in the paintings of Arthur Boyd, but perhaps nowhere more than in the artist#s images of his beloved Shoalhaven region of New South Wales. As Grazia Gunn has commented, #the land Boyd paints is not only beautiful and fragile, it is powerful and dangerous, a prehistoric landscape which traps you in its primordial mysteries. To break the balance between its power and fragility is to destroy it.' (G Gunn cited in B. Pearce, Arthur Boyd, Sydney, 1993, p.177). In Shoalhaven at Dusk, Boyd creates an exquisite, jewel-like image of the Shoalhaven, the clarity of the image facilitated by the artist#s choice of copper as the medium. The scene is captures the rosy light of dusk, which becomes a melange of greys and purple in the river. The hillside becomes a tapestry of grey, cream and toffee brown, enlivened and dramatised by swathes of black and white tree trunks. A white cockatoo swoops down, offering a further connection between land, water and sky. Here, Arthur Boyd creates an image of almost feminine beauty, a paean to nature as much as a refined plea for the conservation of the delicate ecology of the region.

The Shoalhaven River

Artist:     ARTHUR BOYD (1920-1999)  
Title:      The Shoalhaven River
Medium: oil on copper
Image Size: 30.5 x 20.5cm
Signed Lower right: ARTHUR BOYD
Provenance: Private collector

Nude Unveiled

Artist:     ARTHUR BOYD (1920-1999)  
Title:      Nude Unveiled
Medium: Oil, collage on paper
Image Size: 55.5 x 65.5cm
Signed Lower right: ARTHUR BOYD
Provenance: Private collector, NSW

Bride and Serpent

Artist:     ARTHUR BOYD (1920-1999)  
Title:      Bride and Serpent
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 122.5 x 102.5 cm
Signed Lower right: ARTHUR BOYD
Provenance: Private collector purchased at the Best of Boyd exhibition

The Arthur Boyd prestigious Bride series sold  by Sotheby's
"Bride Walking in a Creek I"  $703,000
"Mourning Bride I" for $833,000
"Dreaming Bridegroom I" $957,000 - from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Illustrated:
VIDEO ABC TV Sunday Afternoon June 1997
VIDEO ABC TV National News May 1997
Channel 9 "Burkes Back Yard" 13 October, 1996

Exhibited:
1997 - Galeria Aniela, Best of Boyd exhibition opened by Cameron O'Reilly, Deputy Chairman National Gallery of Australia. The exhibition was widely canvas by media including the front page of Sydney Morning Herald May, 17 1997; ABC TV National News May 18, 1997; O'Reilly - Business - Sydney Morning Herald August 12, 2003;

2005 - The Art Lounge Gallery, Sydney, Australia, exhibition opened by Edmund Capon, DIRECTOR of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Ref:
Bride and Serpent Arthur Boyd one of the most famous Bride series painting influenced by Boyd's high regard for Chagall art and Aboriginal culture - Australian National TV; October 13, 1996 Australian National TV Channel 9; 26 June 1997 ABC TV Sunday Afternoon; May 17, 1997 the ABC TV National News  

NOTES:
Arthur Boyd's hauntingly beautiful paintings of the 'Bride' series of the late-1950s are numbered among his finest, firm of figure and powerful of imagery. Love, Marriage and Death of a Half-Caste, as the series was called collectively, touches on the epic and the heroic, an Antipodean tragedy of the proportions of Romeo and Juliet. Today, the presence of key works in major public and private collections and in the collection of National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Australia and Art Gallery of South Australia confirms their stature in Australian art. Returning to the 'Bride' subject during his first years in London, Boyd's technique became more painterly and figures integrated with their bush land settings. They metamorphosed into dragonflies or windmills as themes of thwarted love, of Eros; and references to classical mythology emerged in the highly personalised, often erotic, symbolism, influenced by Renaissance masters and the vigour of contemporary expressionism. His paint took on a greater thickness through the developed skill of his handling.

The bride, Nebuchadnezzar (sometimes on fire), and other themes continued into later years. In Bride at a Waterfall the plunging figure in white becomes the waterfall at which she drinks below, the firey consuming passion of her lover emerging from the primal forest, figured partly in elements of face and hand reaching to touch the downward rush. Figures emerge and submerge in the bush-land of a highly idiosyncratic work, of multiple meaning and quenching thirst, redolent with the energy of drama, curtsey of the Sotheby's catalogue, 23 April 2007.

"Bride Walking in a Creek I" sold for $703,000 - "So brides and dispossession, as well as a whiff of eroticism, were well to the fore in Boyd's first one-man exhibition in swinging 1960s London at Zwemmer Gallery, where this ‘Bride Walking in a Creek I’ sold for $703,000 Boyd's bride is Sotheby's star, was first exhibited, selling to a UK-based buyer.
Certainly brides are part of the iconography for much of Arthur Boyd rich and sometimes puzzling output"
Peter Fish The Money-Business Sydney Morning Herald, 1 October 2005.

on Fire, fallen in a field

Artist:     ARTHUR BOYD (1920-1999)  
Title:      Nebuchadnezzar on Fire, fallen in a field circa 1968
Medium: oil on canvas
Image Size: 20.2 x 25.5cm
Signed Lower right: ARTHUR BOYD
Provenance: Private collector

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Includes the limited edition book signed Arthur Boyd accompanies it in the box set,  see the next two images of the book. Arthur Boyd "Nebuchadnezzar on Fire, fallen in a field" painting includes the limited edition book see the following two images of the book which accompanies it in the box set (see below).
 

 original 1970 Inscription in the book, The limited edition book 5/30, 25 x 30cms x 9.5 cm. The leather, specially bound limited edition book published by Thames and Hudson with all 30 paintings in colour of the whole Nebuchadnezzar series. 

The whole box measures 25 x 30cm x 9.5 cm depth and is made of cardboard covered in black linen or cotton. 
NOTE:
Due to the age the box is may require of some cleaning and minor repair. original 1970 F
ront cover  of the limited edition book, 5/30, 25 x 30cms x 9.5 cm.

River circa 1984-85

Artist:     ARTHUR BOYD (1920-1999)  
Title:      The Shoalhaven River circa 1984-85
Medium: oil on copper
Image Size: 38 x 30.5cm
Price:     SOLD
 

RED ROCK

Artist:     ARTHUR BOYD (1920-1999)  
Title:      RED ROCK 1990, Magic Flute series Best of Boyd exhibition
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 147 x 154.5cm
Signed: ARTHUR BOYD Lower right
Price:     SOLD

Exhibited:
1990  Opera House Sydney Australia
1990  Wagner Galleries, Paddington, Sydney Australia
1991  Regional Art Gallery of NSW
1991  Wagner Gallery cooperation with New York gallery, USA
1992  Boone art gallery, New York USA,
1992  Wagner Gallery exhibited with cooperation of London gallery, England
1997  Galeria Aniela, Kangaroo Valley NSW, the Best of Boyd exhibition opened by Cameron O'Reilly, Deputy Chairman National Gallery of Australia, the front page of Sydney Morning Herald May, 17 1997, ABC TV National News May 18, 1997, O'Reilly - Business Sydney Morning Herald August 12, 2003,
2005 The Art Lounge Gallery, Sydney exhibition opened by Edmund Capon, DIRECTOR of the Art Gallery of New South Wales

NOTES:
The painting represents eternal love, human endurance and rebirth of a soul. Red Rock remained for Arthur Boyd the most spiritual place; symbolizing life, happiness and reincarnation. In the middle of the painting are two pale figures which signify Angels of Love and the new beginning. A superb work of art, painted 1990, exhibited around the world, belongs to the Magic Flute series. Boyd designed the series to be the milieu at the first ‘Magic Flute’ Mozart opera performance in Sydney Opera House. The opera story say that Price Tamino fell in love in the Green Queen of the Night daughter, the Queen attempts to kill Price Tamino but the true love prevails as the Red Rock NT Australia remains the most spiritual place for over 60,000 years.

ALLEGORY AND MYTH

Artist:    ARTHUR BOYD (1920-1999)  
Title:      ALLEGORY AND MYTH, Magic Flute II - Magic Flute Series
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 180 x 180 cm
Signed: ARTHUR BOYD Lower left
Price:     SOLD

NOTES
This painting is illustrated! page 103, Arthur Boyd Bundanon by Janet McKenzie

ALLEGORY AND MYTH, Magic Flute II  is a splendid painting representing strength, abundance, mortality and power of mankind. The figure on the right is a symbolic representation of the "God of War" personifying strength and power, waterfall depicts life and the animal submits to the Queen and portrays Arthur Boyd himself.

BLACK POOL

Artist:    ARTHUR BOYD (1920-1999)  
Title:      BLACK POOL and THE Queen of the Night - the Magic Flute series
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 250 x 200 cm
Signed: ARTHUR BOYD Lower right
Price:     SOLD

NOTES:
"Black Pool and Queen of the Night" illustrated in the Arthur Boyd at Bundanon book by Janet McKenzie page 104
 

GREEN QUEEN

Artist:    ARTHUR BOYD (1920-1999)  
Title:      THE GREEN QUEEN OF THE NIGHT - the Magic Flute series
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 200 x 250 cm
Signed: ARTHUR BOYD Lower left
Price:     SOLD

NOTES:
Green Queen of the Night - this magnificent painting was featured on the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald 17, May 1997.

THREE LADIES

Artist:    ARTHUR BOYD (1920-1999)  
Title:     THREE LADIES  - the Magic Flute series
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 200 x 250 cm
Signed: ARTHUR BOYD Lower left
Price:     SOLD
 

NOTES:
"Three Ladies" were the helpers to the Queen, representing spirit of good fate.

Shoalhaven River Bundanon

Artist:     ARTHUR BOYD (1920-1999)  
Title:      Shoalhaven River Bundanon series 1984
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 30.5 x 21.5
Signed: ARTHUR BOYD Lower right
Price:     SOLD

Waterfall with a bather and the Elder

Artist:    ARTHUR BOYD (1920-1999)  
Title:      Waterfall with a bather and the Elder
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 122 x 82 cm
Signed: ARTHUR BOYD Lower left
Price:     SOLD

NOTES:
The Shoalhaven River was the constant source of inspiration for Boyd's work. He had a strong relationship between the landscape and the Shoalhaven River. Most paintings he has done on the riverbank location were in small, the large works he painted in his studio. In 1993, Arthur Boyd gave his Bundanon estate on Shoalhaven River in NSW to the nation for the benefit of many.

GREEN SERPENT AND A LADY

Artist:    ARTHUR BOYD (1920-1999)  
Title:      GREEN SERPENT AND A LADY
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 122 x 82 cm
Signed: ARTHUR BOYD Lower right
Price:     SOLD

PULPIT ROCK

Artist:    ARTHUR BOYD (1920-1999)  
Title:      PULPIT ROCK
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 82 x 82 cm
Signed: ARTHUR BOYD Lower right
Price:     SOLD

Shoalhaven River Dusk 1985

Artist:    ARTHUR BOYD (1920-1999)  
Title:      Shoalhaven River Dusk 1985
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 30.5 x 21.5
Signed: ARTHUR BOYD Lower right
Price:     SOLD

NOTES:
The Shoalhaven River was the constant source of inspiration for Boyd's work. He had a strong relationship between the landscape and the Shoalhaven River. Most paintings he has done on the riverbank location were in small, the large works he painted in his studio. In 1993, Arthur Boyd gave his Bundanon estate on Shoalhaven River in NSW to the nation for the benefit of many.

COLLECTIONS
The Australian National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne www.ngv.vic.gov.au/malp/boyd.html  The Bundanon, NSW  www.bundanon.com.au/ National Gallery of Australia; Art Gallery of New South Wales; National Gallery of Victoria; Art Gallery of South Australia; Art Gallery of Western Australia; Museums & Art Galleries of the Northern Territory; Queensland Art Gallery; Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery; Other regional, university and public collections.