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In 1997
for the first time, the talents of six members of the Boyd family
was shown (at one time) in the idyllic
setting of
Galeria Aniela Fine Art
Gallery and Sculpture Park in
the Kangaroo Valley.
The Best of Boyd
family exhibition included
Arthur
Boyd,
brothers
David Boyd
and Guy and Guy's daughter
Lenore Boyd,
also, Arthur's son Jamie Boyd and niece
Tessa Perceval
daughter of John Perceval & Mary Boyd
(Arthur's sister). The
exhibition of 80 paintings and 40 bronze sculpture was widely
canvas by the
media including the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald,
ABC
TV Australian National News | May 1997,
ABC TV Sunday Afternoon |
June 1997;
ABC TV
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The exhibition was
open by Cameron
O'Reilly, Deputy Chairman
National Gallery of
Victoria.
Galeria Aniela
is located just 2 hours South of Sydney in
breathtaking Kangaroo Valley. Galeria Aniela is an attraction in
itself, a stunning two storey architect designed house, crafted
from cool mud bricks and warm timbers with breathtaking
mountains views on 3 hectares of
Sculpture Park.
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Arthur Boyd
(1920- 1999)
Red Rock Magic Flute series Oil on canvas 147 x 154.5cm
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Exhibited: 1990 Opera House Sydney Australia 1990 Wagner Galleries, Opera House Sydney 1991 Regional Gallery of NSW, 1992 New York,
1991 Wagner Gallery, New York USA, 1992 Wagner Gallery, London, England 1997 Galeria Aniela, NSW, the
ABC
National TV
the Best of Boyd
2005 The Art Lounge
Gallery, Sydney, Australia
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.
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Artist:
Arthur Boyd
(1920-1999)
Title:
Pulpit Rock
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 82 x 82 cm
Price:
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Artist:
Arthur Boyd
(1920-1999)
Shoalhaven River Bundanon
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 30.5 x 21.5
Price:
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Artist:
Arthur Boyd
(1920-1999)
Waterfall bather & the
Elder
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size:
Price:
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Artist:
Arthur Boyd
(1920-1999)
Allegory & Myth
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 180 x 180 cm
Price:
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Artist:
Arthur Boyd
(1920-1999)
The Green Queen of the Night
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 200 x 250 cm
Price:
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Artist:
Arthur Boyd
(1920-1999)
Three Ladies Magic Flute
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 200 x 250 cm
Price:
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Artist:
Arthur Boyd
(1920-1999)
Title:
Black Pool & Queen of the
Night
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 250 x 200 cm
Price:
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Artist:
Arthur Boyd
(1920-1999)
GREEN SERPENT & LADY
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 122 x 82 cm
Price:
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Artist:
Arthur Boyd
(1920-1999)
Title:
Shoalhaven River Dusk
1985
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 30.5 x 21.5
Price:
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Yvonne, Arthur Boyd
&
Aniela
- Best of BOYD
exhibition at Galeria Aniela |
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The
Clan gathers for all-Boyd show....
"This is perfect said Arthur Boyd, I think we had better
make a habit of it.
Where
better, then, to exhibit for the first time six Boyd's
all under the one roof? 80 paintings and 40 bronze
sculptures from members of the distinguished family
opens in Galeria Aniela in Kangaroo Valley not far from
the Boyd Shoalhaven home Bundanon, which Arthur Boyd and
his wife Yvonne donated to the nation in 1993" -
by Angela Bennie Arts Writer,
the front page of The Sydney Morning Herald,
the full report page 3 Saturday, May 17, 1997.
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Arthur Boyd
(1920-1999) with Aniela in preparation for Arthur's grand son
Alexander Boyd concert at Galeria Aniela on one of Arthur Boyd
many visits. |
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Arthur Boyd on the
front page of
Sydney Morning Herald 17 May 1997,
exhibition in
Galeria Aniela,
the Best of BOYD family
exhibition
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Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
was born at Murrumbeena,
Melbourne, on 24 July 1920, the
second child of Merric and Doris
Boyd, both potters and painters.
He attended occasional night
classes at the National Gallery
of Victoria Art School, but was
mostly taught by his family, and
in particular his artist
grandfather Arthur Boyd, with
whom he lived at Rosebud,
Victoria from 1936 to 1938. His
first solo exhibition was held
in Melbourne in 1937.
During a brief service in the
army, Boyd formed friendships
with Sidney Nolan, Albert
Tucker, John Perceval and John
and Sunday Reed, associations
that would continue throughout
his life. In 1945 he married
Yvonne Lennie. In 1959 Boyd
relocated with his wife and
three children to England, and
in 1962 was given a
retrospective exhibition at the
Whitechapel Gallery, London. In
1967 Thames and Hudson published
Franz Philipp's major monograph
Arthur Boyd. Boyd
revisited Australia in 1968 and
continued to divide his time
between Europe and Australia.
Arthur Boyd
was honoured with the
Order of Australia
in
1979
and
again
represented Australia at the Venice Biennale.
In 1993 Boyd donated his one
thousand hectare property,
Bundanon, to the nation as well
as several thousand works of art
from five generations of Boyd's
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Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
AC
OBE
(Born
July 24,
1920
–
April 24,
1999)
born at
Murrumbeena, Victoria,
was a member of the prominent
Boyd artistic dynasty
in Australia, with many relatives being
painters,
sculptors,
architects
or other arts professionals.
He
had no formal training in painting and
drawing however he studied with his grandfather
Arthur Merric Boyd,
the New Zealand born landscape painter.
His sister
Mary Boyd
married
John Perceval,
and then
Sidney Nolan.
His wife
Yvonne Boyd
née Lennie, and daughter Polly are also
painters.
Arthur Merric Bloomfield
Boyd
is
represented in all Australian state galleries.
Boyd is best known for his experimental and
sometimes complex painting of figures and
impressionist, pastoral landscapes. His 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. He produced several series of
works, including a collection of 15
biblical
paintings based on the teaching of his mother,
Doris Boyd
née Gough. Later he produced a
tempera
series about large areas of
sky
and
land,
called the Wimmera series. In the 1940s he 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.
He represented Australia with
Arthur Streeton
at the
Venice Biennale
in 1958. He joined the
Antipodeans Group
in the Whitechapel gallery. Avoiding the social
issues raised in works such as Half Cast Child
and feeling drawn to European styles of
painting, Boyd moved permanently to
Hampstead, London
in 1960. The same year he held his first London
exhibition. While here, Boyd entered another
distinct period with his works themed around the
idea of
metamorphasis.
He started another well known series of works,
Nebuchadnezzar is 1966. This series was a
statement of the
human condition
and is often considered to be his most
beautiful. He returned to Australia in 1971, as
one of Australia's most highly regarded artists.
In 1975
Arthur
Boyd presented several thousand works
to the
National Gallery of Australia.
In 1978 he bought properties and settled
permanently at
Bundanon
on the
Shoalhaven River,
which he donated to the people of Australia in
1993. His creations now focused on the primevial
natural settings found in the
Australian bush
and in later years explored the interplay
between human
land use
and natural
wilderness.
Boyd was enthralled by his position near the
river and by the scale and moods of the valley
landscape. In 1975 he presented several thousand
works to the
National Gallery of
Australia.
In 1979, he was honoured with the
Order of Australia.
He represented Australia at the Venice Biennale
again in May 2000, and is painting Dreaming
Bridegroom I (1957) sold for $957,000.
Another painting of the Bride series,
Mourning Bride I (1958) has sold for
$833,000
from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nebuchadnezzar Story
Nebuchadnezzar
(listen)
(c 630-562 B.C.E), was a ruler of
Babylon
in the
Chaldean Dynasty,
who reigned c.
605 BC-562
BC.
Nebuchadnezzar
is famous for his
monumental building within his capital of Babylon, his role
in the
Book of Daniel,
and his construction of
the
Hanging Gardens of
Babylon
and known among
Christians and Jews for his conquests of
Judah
and
Jerusalem.
He was traditionally
called "Nebuchadrezzar the Great", but his destruction of
temples in Jerusalem and the conquest of Judah caused his
vilification in the Bible, (Daniel 1:1; Prophecied Jeremiah
25:11). In contemporary Iraq and some other parts of the
Middle East, Nebuchadnezzar is glorified as a historic
leader.
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Nebuchadnezzar was the oldest son and successor of
Nabopolassar,
who delivered Babylon from its dependence on
Assyria
and laid
Nineveh
in ruins. According to
Berossus,
he married
Amytis of Media,
the daughter or granddaughter of
Cyaxares,
king of the Medes, and thus the
Median
and Babylonian dynasties were united.
Necho II,
the king of
Egypt,
had gained a victory over the Assyrians at
Carchemish.
This secured Egypt the possession of
Phoenician
provinces of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, including parts of
Syria. The remaining Assyrian provinces were divided between
Babylonia and Media.
Nabopolassar
was intent on reconquering from Necho the western provinces
of Syria, however, and to this end dispatched his son with a
powerful army westward. In the ensuing
Battle of Carchemish
in 605 BC, the Egyptian army was defeated and driven back,
and Syria and Phoenicia were brought under the sway of
Babylon. Nabopolassar died on
August 15,
605 BC
and Nebuchadrezzar quickly returned to Babylon to ascend to
the throne. After the defeat of the
Cimmerians
and
Scythians,
all of Nebuchadrezzar's expeditions were directed westwards,
although a powerful neighbour lay to the North; the cause of
this was that a wise political marriage with
Amuhia,
the daughter of the
Median
king, had ensured a lasting peace between the two empires.
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