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Arthur Boyd
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"Mourning Bride I" sold for $833,000
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REFERENCE: Bride series is one of the most famous series of this legendary Australian artist, Arthur Boyd. Bride & the Serpent influenced by Boyd's high regard for Chagall & Australian indigenous culture. 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. Bride paintings at a Waterfall the plunging figure in white becomes the waterfall at which she drinks the fiery 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. |
| 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. |
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"Nude Unveiled"
represents the human endurance and
the rebirth of the human soul,
it is a
top-quality original oil painting. Arthur Boyd
believed in love,
happiness, spirits and angels which transformed his
work, in his world the true love always prevailed.
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Joel Fine Art lot No: 56 Arthur Boyd "Shoalhaven at Dusk" oil on copper, 30x21cm, estimated $60,000-$80,000 + 22% Buyer premium and tax |
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Arthur Boyd
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Arthur Boyd
prestigious
Bride
series sold "Mourning Bride I" $833,000; "Dreaming
Bridegroom I" $957,000;
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from Wikipedia Encyclopedia Bride & Serpent widely canvas by the media ABC TV National News, ABC TV Sunday Afternoon, TV Channel 9 etc |
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Exhibited: 1997 Best of Boyd Galeria Aniela Kangaroo Valley officially open by the Deputy Chairman National Gallery of Australia, Cameron O'Reilly. The exhibition was widely canvas by the 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, opened by Director the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Edmund Capon |
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| Include: a leather bound limited edition book no. 5, published in 1970 by Thames and Hudson with30 colour paintings the whole Nebuchadnezzar series, signed by Arthur Boyd in the individually hand made box. |
| 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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The limited edition 5/30 book published by Thames and Hudson with the Nebuchadnezzar colour paintings. |
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Limited edition 3/30 white leather bound book published by Thames and Hudson with colour Nebuchadnezzar paintings. |
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click on the image the ABC TV Sunday Afternoon about BOYD exhibition with Arthur Boyd input & warm support at Galeria Aniela. The exhibition was opened by Cameron O'Reilly Deputy Chairman National Gallery of Victoria |
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Best of
Boyd
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Sydney Morning Herald 17 May 1997. For the first time, the talent of six members of the Boyd's family is shown at one time in the idyllic setting of Galeria Aniela Fine Art Gallery and Sculpture Park in breathtaking Kangaroo Valley south of Sydney. The Best of Boyd family exhibition included Arthur Boyd, brothers David Boyd and Guy, Guy's daughter Lenore Boyd, Arthur's son Jamie Boyd and niece Tessa Perceval (B.1947) John Perceval & Mary Boyd daughter (Arthur Boyd niece). The exhibition opened by Cameron O'Reilly Deputy Chairman National Gallery of Victoria of 80 paintings and 40 bronze sculpture was widely canvas by the media including; the Australian National News ABC TV, 17 May 1997, ABC TV Sunday Afternoon - BOYD, 26 June 1997; Australian National ABC TV Snap-Shot etc. Galeria Aniela, located 2 hours South of Sydney with breathtaking views is an attraction in itself, a stunning two storey architect designed art gallery, crafted from cool mud bricks and warm timbers set on three hectares of Sculpture Park. |
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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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Arthur Boyd "Dreaming Bridegroom I" sold for
$957,000
when "Mourning Bride I (1958)" got $833,000 (another one
of the Bride series) in May 2000. "
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"Bride" series is one of the most famous series of this legendary Australian artist, Arthur Boyd. Bride and the Serpent is influenced by Boyd's high regard for Chagall art as well as inspired by Australian indigenous culture. 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 A$703,000 Boyd's bride. |
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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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Nebuchadrezzar faces off against Zedekiah, the last king of Judah, who holds a plan of Jerusalem, in this Baroque-era depiction in Zwiefalten Abbey in Germany. Nebuchadrezzar engaged in several military campaigns designed to increase Babylonian influence in Syria and Judah. An attempted invasion of Egypt in 601 BC was met with setbacks, however, leading to numerous rebellions among the states of the Levant, including Judah. Nebuchadrezzar soon dealt with these rebellions, capturing Jerusalem in 607 BC deposing King Jehoiakim, destroying both the city and the Temple and deporting many of the prominent citizens along with a sizable portion of the Jewish population of Judah to Babylon. These events are described in Ketuvim, a section of Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible and known to non-Jews as the Old Testament. After the destruction of Jerusalem, Nebuchadrezzar engaged in a thirteen year long siege of Tyre (585-572 BC), which ended in a compromise, with the Tyrians accepting Babylonian authority. It would appear that following the pacification of Tyre, Nebuchadrezzar turned again to Egypt. A clay tablet, now in the British Museum, bears the following inscription referring to his wars: "In the 37th year of Nebuchadrezzar, king of the country of Babylon, he went to Mitzraim (Egypt) to make war. Amasis, king of Egypt, collected [his army], and marched and spread abroad.". Having completed the subjugation of Phoenicia, and inflicted chastisement on Egypt, Nebuchadrezzar now set himself to rebuild and adorn the city of Babylon, and constructed canals, aqueducts, temples and reservoirs. Babylonian tradition has it that towards the end of his life, Nebuchadrezzar, inspired from on high, prophesied the impending ruin to the Chaldean Empire (Berosus and Abydenus in Eusebius, Praep. Evang., 9.41). Nebuchadrezzar died in Babylon between the second and sixth months of the forty-third year of his reign. |
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Nebuchadrezzar seems to have prided himself on his constructions more than on his victories. During the last century of Niniveh's existence, Babylon had been greatly devastated, not only at the hands of Sennacherib and Assurbanipal, but also as a result of her ever renewed rebellions. Nebuchadrezzar, continuing his father's work of reconstruction, aimed at making his capital one of the world's wonders. Old temples were restored; new edifices of incredible magnificence were erected to the many gods of the Babylonian pantheon (Diodorus of Sicily, 2.95; Herodotus, 1.183) to complete the royal palace begun by Nabopolassar, nothing was spared, neither "cedar-wood, nor bronze, gold, silver, rare and precious stones"; an underground passage and a stone bridge connected the two parts of the city separated by the Euphrates; the city itself was rendered impregnable by the construction of a triple line of walls. The bridge across the Euphrates is of particular interest, in that it was supported on asphalt covered brick piers that were streamlined to reduce the upstream resistance to flow, and the downstream turbulence that would otherwise undermine the foundations. Nor was Nebuchadrezzar's activity confined to the capital; he is credited with the restoration of the Lake of Sippar, the opening of a port on the Persian Gulf, and the building of the famous Mede wall between the Tigris and the Euphrates to protect the country against incursions from the North. In fact, there is scarcely a place around Babylon where his name does not appear and where traces of his activity are not found. These gigantic undertakings required an innumerable host of workmen; from the inscription of the great temple of Marduk, we may infer that most probably captives brought from various parts of Western Asia made up a large part of the labouring force used in all his public works. Nebuchadrezzar made the hanging gardens for his wife Amyitis (or Amytis) to remind her of her homeland, Medis (or Media).[1] She was the daughter (or granddaughter) of King Cyaxares the Mede.There was a Portrayal in the Books of Daniel and Jeremiah Nebukadnezar, by William Blake, Nebuchadrezzar is most widely known through his portrayal in the Bible, especially the Book of Daniel (where he appears as "Nebuchadnezzar"). This book discusses several events of his reign, in addition to his conquest of Jerusalem. In the second year of his reign (evidently counting from his conquest of the Jews), Nebuchadrezzar dreams of a huge image made of various materials (gold, silver, bronze, iron, etc). The prophet Daniel tells him God's interpretation, that it stands for the rise and fall of world powers. (Daniel Chapter 2). During another incident, Nebuchadrezzar erects a large idol for worship during a public ceremony on the plain of Dura. When three Jews, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah (respectively renamed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego by their captors, to facilitate their assimilation into Babylonian culture), refuse to take part, he has them cast into a fiery furnace. They are protected by an angel [Daniel 3:25, KJV], and emerge unscathed without even the smell of smoke. (Daniel Chapter 3). Another dream, this time of an immense tree, is interpreted by Daniel the prophet. (Daniel Chapter 4) Chapter 4 is also written by Nebuchadrezzar (Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you. I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me.) DAN4:1-2. While boasting over his achievements, Nebuchadrezzar is humbled by God. The king loses his sanity and lives in the wild like an animal for seven years (by some considered as an attack of the madness called clinical boanthropy or alternately porphyria). After this, his sanity and position are restored. A clay tablet in the British Museum (BM34113) describes Nebuchadnezzar's behaviour during his insanity: "His life appeared of no value to him... then he gives an entirely different order... he does not show love to son or daughter... family and clan does not exist [2]. There is also a notable absence of any record of acts or decrees by the king during 582 to 575 BC.[3] Some scholars believe that the Book of Daniel was written long after the events described, during the 2nd century BC, and thus are skeptical of the details of Nebuchadrezzar's portrayal by Daniel. Some scholars think that Nebuchadrezzar's portrayal by Daniel is a mixture of traditions about Nebuchadrezzar — he was indeed the one who conquered Jerusalem — and about Nabonidus (Nabuna'id), the last king of Babylon. For example, Nabonidus was the real father of Belshazzar, and the seven years of insanity could be related to Nabonidus' sojourn in Tayma in the desert. Evidence for this view was actually found on some fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls that reference Nabonidus (N-b-n-y) being smitten by God with a fever for seven years of his reign while his son Belshazzar was regent. The Book of Jeremiah contains a prophecy about the arising of a "destroyer of nations", commonly regarded as a reference to Nebuchadnezzar (Jer. 4:7), as well as an account of Nebuchadnezzar's siege of Jerusalem and looting and destruction of the temple (Jer. 52). Successors: After his death in October, 562 BC, having reigned 43 years, he was succeeded by his son Amel-Marduk, who, after a reign of two years, was succeeded by Neriglissar (559-555), who was succeeded by Nabonidus (555-538), at the close of whose reign (less than a quarter of a century after the death of Nebuchadrezzar) Babylon fell under Cyrus the Great as the head of the combined armies of Media and Persia.Named after Nebuchadrezzar
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