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Established in 1994 Galeria Aniela won the trust of some of the most important Australian artists including Arthur Boyd, Jamie Boyd, Andrew Sibley, Alan Somerville, Bogdan Fialkowski, Charles Blackman, Celia Perceval, Col Henry, Danielle Legge, David Boyd, Dino Rogliani, Garry Shead, Gaye Spencer, Janusz Kuzbicki, John Olsen, John de Burgh Perceval, Kinga Rypinska, Lenore Boyd, Michael Vaynman, Nathaniel Boyd, Pamela Griffith, Pin Hsun Hsiang, Peter Smith, Robin Holliday, Ray Crooke, Regina Noakes, Susan Weaver, Tessa Perceval and many Aboriginal artists. Galeria Aniela specializes in selling to a world wide buyer base high-quality art by renowned artists. We combine art and financial expertise, to deliver to collectors, investors and institutions unique art investments. We recognize the importance of a buyer confidence in purchasing an authentic original work of art, we sell items only of impeccable provenance and quality. Our people focused approach ensures an enjoyable and a rewarding experience. |
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Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd, AC, OBE (24 July 1920 – 24 April 1999) was a member of the prominent Boyd artistic dynasty in Australia. Many of Arthur Boyd relatives being painters, sculptors, architects or other arts professionals. Arthur Boyd sister Mary Boyd married John Perceval, and then Sidney Nolan, both artists. Arthur Boyd wife Yvonne Boyd née Lennie, and son Jamie Boyd is an important artist, and daughters Polly and Lucy are also painters. Arthur Boyd is best known for his experimental and sometimes complex painting of figures and impressionist, pastoral landscapes. Arthur Boyd was a member of the Antipodeans, a group of Melbourne painters that also included David Boyd,Clifton Pugh, John Brack, Robert Dickerson, John Perceval and Charles Blackman.
Arthur Merric
Bloomfield Boyd
was born at
Murrumbeena,
Victoria.
Arthur Boyd
had no formal training in painting and drawing,
however he studied with his grandfather
Arthur Merric
Boyd,
the New Zealand-born landscape painter and Merric
Boyd, the Australian sculptor and studio potter.
Early paintings were portraits and of
Port Phillip Bay
created while he was an adolescent, living in the
suburbs of Melbourne. He moved to the inner city
where he was influenced by his contact with European
refugees. Reflecting this move in the late 1930s,
his work moved into a distinct period of depictions
of fanciful characters in urban settings. In the 1940s Arthur Boyd was a member of the Angry Penguins artistic and literary group. His best-known work is perhaps his Half caste bride series in the 1950s, which he did based on his experiences of having direct contact with Aborigines in Alice Springs in 1951. Arthur Boyd represented Australia with Arthur Streeton at the Venice Biennale in 1958. He joined the Antipodeans Group in the Whitechapel gallery. produced several series of works, including a collection of 15 biblical paintings based on the teaching of his mother, Doris Boyd née Gough. Later Arthur Boyd produced a tempera series about large areas of sky and land, called the Wimmera series. Avoiding the social issues raised in works such as Half Caste Child and feeling drawn to European styles of painting, Arthur Boyd moved permanently to Hampstead, London in 1960. The same year Arthur Boyd held his first London exhibition. While here, Arthur Boyd entered another distinct period with his works themed around the idea of metamorphosis. returned to Australia in 1971, as one of Australia's most highly regarded artists. In 1978 Arthur Boyd bought properties and settled permanently at Bundanon on the Shoalhaven River. Arthur Boyd donated this 1100-hectare property to the people of Australia in 1993. His creations now focused on the primeval natural settings found in the Australian bush and in later years explored the interplay between human land use and natural wilderness. Arthur Boyd was enthralled by his position near the river and by the scale and moods of the valley landscape.Arthur Boyd started another well known series of works, Nebuchadnezzar in 1966. Arthur Boyd series was a statement of the human condition and is often considered to be his most beautiful.
In 1975
Arthur Boyd
presented
several thousand works to the
National Gallery
of Australia.
In 2000 Arthur Boyd represented Australia at the Venice Biennale again in May. In 1993 Arthur Boyd and wife Yvonne make a gift of the Bundanon properties and his art collections to Australia, a unique cultural and environmental asset. The gift was borne out of Arthur Boyd's often stated belief that 'you can't own a landscape' and the deeply felt wish that others might also draw inspiration from Bundanon. Arthur Boyd is represented in all Australian state galleries. In 1997 Arthur Boyd for the first time exhibits together with the six members of his renowned artistic dynasty under one roof (brothers David and Guy, son Jamie, nieces Lenore and Tessa Perceval). The "Best of Boyd" exhibition of 80 paintings and 40 bronze sculptures is open by Cameron O'Reilly, Chairman National Gallery of Australia and coup the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald, 17 May 1997. The exhibition held in Galeria Aniela Fine Art Gallery free for pubic viewing. Documentary review shown on the ABC TV Australian National News, 18 May 1997 and the ABC TV Sunday Afternoon, June 1997. Arthur Boyd Bridegroom waiting for Bride to Grow Up sold for for $1,073,250 his Dreaming Bridegroom sold for $957,000 and another painting of the Bride series, Mourning Bride I has sold for $833,000.
VIDEO: ABC TV Australian National News, BOYD exhibition in Galeria Aniela, for the first time Boyd family exhibited together under one roof. Arthur Boyd's subjects were often mythical, realistic, malformed people and monster, depicting a tragic drama. 1978 Arthur Boyd purchase Bundanon estate on the Shoalhaven River and creates the most loved Shoalhaven series of paintings. In 1995 Arthur and Yvonne Boyd make a gift of the Bundanon properties and his art collections to Australia, a unique cultural and environmental asset. The gift was borne out of Arthur Boyd's often stated belief that 'you can't own a landscape' and the deeply felt wish that others might also draw inspiration from Bundanon.
VIDEO gallery site:
ABC Sunday Afternoon, Review, Arthur Boyd, David Boyd exhibition in Galeria
Arthur Boyd career highlights
  his wife
Yvonne, three
children
and nine grand children, his son Jamie
is a practicing
artist.
The presence of
Arthur Boyd
'Bride'
series paintings are rarely seen in private collections but rather in major public collections
including
Tate Gallery London,
National Gallery of Victoria,
National Gallery of Australia
and
Art Gallery of South Australia
that confirms the stature of
Arthur Boyd legacy
in Australian and
international art.
Arthur Boyd
Bridegroom waiting for Bride to Grow Up
1958 sold for
for
$1,073,250
The figures 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
vigor of contemporary expressionism.
Arthur Boyd paintings took on a
greater thickness through the developed skill of his handling.
Arthur Boyd
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) was
was first exhibited in the 50's.
June 2010
Tate
Gallery London acquired first Arthur Boyd "Bride"
at £250,000.
The Australian 18 June
2010| Tate Modern lifts the veil on Boyd bride.
Certainly
brides are part
of the iconography for much of Arthur Boyd rich ..output"
Courtesy:
Peter Fish The Money-Business Sydney Morning Herald,
1 October 2005.
Today the presence of Arthur Boyd 'Bride' series paintings are rarely in private collections but rather in major public collections including Tate Gallery London, National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Australia and Art Gallery of South Australia that confirms the stature of Arthur Boyd legacy in Australian and international art. |
