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John Perceval AO
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John
Perceval "Scudding Swans" Williamstown series sold for
A$552,500. In 30 June 2000 it was a record for a
living Australian painter. John Perceval "Sulphur Smoke"
Williamstown series sold for A$596,600 at
Deutscher-Menzies in March 2002 Sydney. |
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The major John Perceval Retrospective
held
at
Galeria Aniela
Fine Art Gallery and Sculpture Park in
May
2000, exhibited
over 80 works of art from 1937 to 1999. The exhibition,
widely
canvas by the media including the
ABC TV Australian
National News
was
officially opened by Justin Miller, Chairman
Sotheby's Australia.
Collections:
National Gallery of Victoria - Melbourne
John PERCEVAL ,
National Gallery of Victoria
John Perceval -
Modern Australian Landscape Painting: NGV;
Perceval,
John de Burgh
History of the
collection, Monash University Museum of Art
National Gallery of Australia - Canberra;
Art Gallery of New South Wales - Sydney;
Art Gallery of Western Australia - Perth;
The University of Western Australia Art Collection
www.arts.uwa.edu.au/LW/waywewere/perceval.html;
Melbourne University, Victoria;
Monash University Melbourne
The
University of Western Australia Art Collection
www.arts.uwa.edu.au/LW/waywewere/perceval.html;
Art Gallery of South Australia - Adelaide;
www.arts.uwa.edu.au/LW/waywewere/perceval.html;
Australian Centre for the Moving Image -
Melbourne;
Museum of Contemporary Art - Sydney;
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery - Hobart.
Museum & Art Gallery
Northern Territory Darwin;
Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane;
Northern Territory Museum
of Arts and Sciences;
Australian National University, Canberra;
University of Western Australia;
Heide Museum of Modern Art
www.heide.com.au/
Newcastle Regional Art
Gallery;
Bendigo Art Gallery;
Benalla Art Gallery;
Rockhampton Art Gallery;
The Mertz Collection, USA;
Joseph Brown Collection;
ICI collection;
State Bank of Victoria;
ANZ Bank, Melbourne;
JGL Collection, Melbourne;
Wesfarmers, WA;
Australian University
Power
House Museum
www.powerhousemuseum.com/opac/91-397.asp
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Title: Ships at
Williamstown 1988-89
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image size:
93.5 x 123.5 cm |
EXHIBITED:
1989-90 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2000 Galeria Aniela, NSW, Australia
Perceval Retrospective
ABC TV National News
2003 Galeria Aniela, NSW, Australia
2005 The Art Lounge Gallery Woolloomooloo, NSW. |
NOTES:
This painting is illustrated
in the TOWARDS THE MILLENNIUM 2000 The art of John
Perceval page 11 the MTU Australia. John Perceval early
Williamstown paintings are in the collection of
Australian National Gallery of Victoria. He established
strong emotional connection with a small Williamstown
Melbourne Harbour. Williamstown paintings formed his
first major show in 1956 bringing Perceval an immediate
artistic acclaim and financial success. He was seen to
have approached Australian landscape with a new vision
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Title:
Williamstown Fishermen's 1988-89
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image size:
82.5 x 102.5cm |
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EXHIBITED:
1989-90 Melbourne, Victoria
2000 Galeria
Aniela, NSW, Australia
2001 Wagner Art Gallery Paddington
2003 Galeria
Aniela, NSW, Australia
2005 The
Art Lounge Gallery Woolloomooloo, NSW
NOTES:
A characteristically Perceval masterful work of art with
rich paintwork and superb tone almost "live" sea water
with the fish men fishing. A sense a musical swell of
immense sea in motion and fishing men. Perceval fell in
love in Williamstown for its romance and intrinsic
beauty, loved the old fishing boats moored to the
jetties as they dance backwards and forewords on the
foaming water. He uses the brush, his hands, a straw
broom and a pallet knife to create the intensity and
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Title:
Sapphire-Blue Sunflowers
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image size: 89 x 89 cm |
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EXHIBITED:
2000 Galeria Aniela, NSW
2001 Wagner Art Gallery Paddington
2003 Galeria Aniela, NSW
2005 The
Art Lounge Gallery Woolloomooloo, NSW |
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NOTES:
"Sapphire-Blue
Sunflowers"
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the
only
painting that
Perceval has done
in the contemporary sapphire-blue colour. It is a
masterful work representative of his sunflowers
paintings, beautifully composition, a modern paraphrase,
showing visible power of lines and superb tone with
typical Perceval rich paintwork. This artwork is done in
Perceval typical swirling brush-strokes of rich
sapphire-cerulean and orange and
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Title:
Sunflowers on Gold
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Image size:
46.5 x 35.5 cm |
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Title:
Sunflowers on
Crimson
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Image size:
59.5 x 51.5 cm |
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Title: Free
Sunflowers
Medium:
Oil on paper board
Image size:
76.5 x 57.5 cm |
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EXHIBITED:
2000 Galeria
Aniela NSW
2001 Wagner
Art Gallery Paddington, NSW
2003 Galeria Aniela NSW
2006 The
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Title:
Sunflowers on Blue
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Image size:
46.5 x 35.5 cm |
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Artist:
John
Perceval (1923-2000)
Title:
The Big
Boat
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 82.5 x 102.5 cm
Signed:
PERCEVAL
Lower left
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Artist:
John Perceval (1923-2000)
Title:
The
Brilliant Sunflowers 1989
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 90 x 80cm
Signed: PERCEVAL Lower left
Price:
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Artist:
John Perceval (1923-2000)
Title:
Farmer 1990
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 60 x 76 cm
Signed: PERCEVAL Lower left
Price:
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Artist:
John Perceval (1923-2000)
Title:
Sun in
Wheatfield
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 80 x 80 cm
Signed: PERCEVAL Lower left
Price:
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Artist:
John Perceval
Title:
Sunflowers
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 46x40cm
Signed: PERCEVAL lower left
Price:
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Artist:
John Perceval (1923-2000)
Title:
Williamstown Night Ship 1990
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 70x102cm
Signed: PERCEVAL Lower left
Price:
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Artist:
John Perceval
Title:
Girl with
Bees Queen Bee
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 102 x 82 cm
Signed: PERCEVAL Lower left
Price:
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Artist:
John Perceval (1923-2000)
Title:
Williamstown Light House Detail
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 82 x 102 cm
Signed: PERCEVAL Lower left
Price:
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Artist:
John
Perceval (1923-2000)
Title: Small
Boats 1989-90
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 82x102cm
Signed:
PERCEVAL
Lower left
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Artist:
John
Perceval (1923-2000)
Title: The
Old Fishing Boat, Williamstown
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 82.5 x 102.5 cm
Signed:
PERCEVAL
Lower left
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Artist:John
Perceval (1923-2000)
Title:Sunflowers
on Purple
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 61.5 x 51.5 cm
Signed: PERCEVAL Lower left
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Artist:
John Perceval
(1923-2000)
Title: Williamstown
Fish 1990
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signed:
PERCEVAL Lower left
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Artist:
John Perceval
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Title:
Sunflowers on Purple
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 89 x 89 cm
Signed: PERCEVAL Lower left
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Artist:
John Perceval (1923-2000)
Title:
Williamstown Light House Detail
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 82 x 102 cm
Signed: PERCEVAL Lower left
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Artist:
John Perceval (1923-2000)
Title:
Sunflowers
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 61.5 x 51.5 cm
Signed: PERCEVAL Lower left
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Artist:
John Perceval (1923-2000)
Title:
Pumpkin House
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 82 x 102 cm
Signed: PERCEVAL Lower left
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letter from
Ken McGregor, a recognized
figure in the Australian art world, often summon by Australian
National Galleries regarding Perceval and other important
artists authenticity. He is an art-dealer and a well-known
author of numerous art books. McGregor was John Perceval Manager
and a close friend for over twenty five years later nursing
Perceval until Perceval death Sep. 2000. |
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John Perceval
and Aniela
in his Studio in
Melbourne, May 1999 organizing Perceval major
Retrospective to be held
at
Galeria Aniela
Fine Art Gallery and Sculpture Park.
Aniela
was privileged to befriend the legendary Australian
artist,
she won
John
Perceval
trust to
arrange
with his
encouragement
and his warm support the last major Retrospective
of 80 works of art including early paintings from
1937. The exhibition was
televised by the
ABC TV
Australian National News,
officially opened
by
Justin Miller, Chairman
Sotheby's Australia
in 19
August
2000 and open to public until November
2000. |
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Collections:
The
University of Western Australia Art Collection
www.arts.uwa.edu.au/LW/waywewere/perceval.html;
Melbourne University, Victoria; Monash University
Melbourne
www.monash.edu.au/muma/collection/history.html;
National Gallery of
Victoria - Melbourne
www.ngv.vic.gov.au/malp/perceval.html
www.ngv.vic.gov.au/collection/australian/painting/p/perceval.html
National Gallery of
Australia - Canberra;
Art Gallery of New South Wales - Sydney;
Art Gallery of Western
Australia - Perth;
The University of Western Australia Art Collection
www.arts.uwa.edu.au/LW/waywewere/perceval.html;
Art Gallery of South
Australia - Adelaide;
www.arts.uwa.edu.au/LW/waywewere/perceval.html;
Australian Centre for the
Moving Image - Melbourne;
Museum of Contemporary Art - Sydney;
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery - Hobart.
Museum & Art Gallery Northern
Territory Darwin;
Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane;
Northern Territory Museum
of Arts and Sciences; Australian National University,
Canberra; University of Western Australia;
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
www.heide.com.au/
Newcastle
Regional Art Gallery; Bendigo Art Gallery;
Benalla Art Gallery; Rockhampton Art Gallery;
The Mertz Collection, USA; Joseph Brown Collection;
ICI collection; State Bank of Victoria; ANZ Bank,
Melbourne;
JGL Collection, Melbourne; Wesfarmers, WA;
Australian University
Private collections in Australia, UK, USA;
Power House Museum;
www.powerhousemuseum.com/opac/91-397.asp
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John Perceval LAST Major Retrospective at Galeria Aniela
2000 Retrospective exhibition, Galeria Aniela, Kangaroo
Valley, NSW
televised by the
ABC TV Australian National News.
John Perceval AO is Australia's one of the most
distinguished and celebrated artists. He has earned a
place at the forefront of Australian painters and is
recognised as an icon of Australian visual art. His work
includes paintings, drawings, ceramic sculpture and
decorated earthenware. He is one of the last
'Antipodeans' and remains one of the century's most
important and best loved artists.
At the recent auction of the Mertz collection,
Perceval's "Scudding Swans" sold for the top price of
$552,500. Perceval holds now a record for a living
Australian painter.
The first major Retrospective of John Perceval's work in New
South Wales will be on view at Galeria Aniela Fine Art
Gallery in Kangaroo Valley. The exhibition is arranged
with the personal encouragement and support of this
great Australian painter.
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Free admission to the gallery will assure that
everyone can view and appreciate this unique
exhibition. The gallery, including a large
sculpture park is located on Mt. Scanzi Road.
Turn off Moss Vale Road into Mt. Scanzi Road
between the Kangaroo Valley village and historic
Hampton Bridge. Drive for 2.6 kilometres and
look for the Galeria Aniela sign on the left.
The Retrospective was officially opened on
Saturday, 19 August by Justin Miller, Chairman
Sotheby's Australia. It will run until 29
October.
The exhibition includes 85 works, from as early
as 1943, oil paintings, drawings, pastels and
watercolours. Some works have not been
previously seen.
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Queen of the Night with her Bees, 1988,
oil on canvas. |
With a contribution to art spanning nearly six decades,
Perceval has produced fewer than 600 oil paintings. This
exhibition gives a rare chance to appreciate valuable
works of this significant Australian artist that are
normally held in museums and private collections.
John Perceval provides the viewer with a visual feast,
using rich colours, dancing and sensuous forms, a touch
of the amorous to seduce the eye and witty humour.
Perceval mastery of the wide range of media is obvious
in the way they are seamlessly applied and integrated,
showing vivacity, spontaneity and joyous innocence. The
appeal of his work is immediate, disclosing an active
mind, dynamism, strength, vitality and a youthfulness
which belies his age. His work is pure celebration of
life and visual delight solely revealing Perceval's
genius. |
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As
a young boy,
John Perceval,
following the depression years, during the thirties, joined the
army to serve in the Army Survey Corps in 1939. It was there
that he met Arthur Boyd, he married his sister Mary.
Perceval became a good friend with Arthur, his brothers, Guy and
David as well as Sidney Nolan and Albert Tucker. Perceval’s work
first made an impact virtually as soon as he had begun to paint
in the 1940s, when he exhibited at the Contemporary Art Society
in Melbourne in 1942 at the age of nineteen.
By the 1950s and 1960s Perceval work had developed to become an
individual and consistent style and he made his artistic and
financial success. He played a major role in the Antipodean
group in the late 1950s in Melbourne.
Antipodean group reacted strongly against the promoters of
non-figurative painting who followed the trends in the United
States and suggested that representational painting was
unfashionable and outdated. |
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John
Perceval "Scudding Swans" Williamstown series sold for
A$552,500.00. In 30 June 2000 it was a record for a
living Australian painter. John Perceval "Sulphur Smoke"
Williamstown series sold for A$596,600 at
Deutscher-Menzies in March 2002 Sydney.
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John de Burgh Perceval was born Linwood Robert Stevens
South at Bruce Rock, Western Australia, on 1 February
1923, the second child of Bob and Dorothy South. His
parents separated in 1925 and he remained at his
father's farm, until reunited with his mother in
Melbourne in 1935. He called himself John and adopted
his stepfather's surname de Burgh Perceval. In 1938
Perceval contracted polio and was hospitalised, during
which time he developed his skills at drawing and
painting. Enlisting in the army in 1941, Perceval met
Arthur Boyd, and later his sister Mary, whom he married
in 1944. Although showing regularly with the
Contemporary Art Society, Perceval held his first solo
exhibition at the Melbourne Book Club in 1948. Between
1949 and 1955 he concentrated on producing earthenware
ceramics at the Boyd's home at Murrumbeena. In 1956
Perceval returned to painting with a series of images of
Williamstown and Gaffney's Creek.
In 1963 Perceval moved to England, held solo exhibitions
in London, and travelled to Europe, before returning to
Australia in 1965 to take up the first Australian
National University Creative Fellowship. John
Perceval, a major retrospective exhibition, was held
at Albert Hall, Canberra in 1966 and Margaret Plant's
monograph John Perceval, was published in 1971. In 1974
Perceval committed himself to the psychiatric hospital
Larundel, Melbourne, where he remained until 1981.
John Perceval: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings
was held at Heide Park and Art Gallery in 1984. Perceval
was awarded Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in
1991, and in the following year the National Gallery of
Victoria organised John Perceval: A Retrospective
exhibition. Text curtsey
National Gallery of Victoria - Melbourne. |
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Perceval selected
Major Exhibitions
1942-44, 48, 54 Annual exhibitions, Contemporary Art
Society, Melbourne
1956, 60 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1957 David Jones Gallery, Sydney
1959 'Angels', Museum of Modern Art of Australia,
Melbourne
1959 'The Antipodeans exhibition; Victorian Artists'
Society', Clune Galleries, Sydney
1961 '50 Australian Painters', Whitechapel Gallery,
London
1962 'Rebels and Precursors', National Gallery of
Victoria, touring State galleries
1963 VII Biennale, Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paolo,
Brazil
1963 'Australian Painting: Colonial, Impressionist,
Contemporary', Tate Gallery, London
1964 Zwemmer Gallery, London; Sotuh Yarra Gallery,
Melbourne
1966 Retrospective exhibition, Albert Hall, Canberra
1967-79 Various exhibitions at Clune Galleries, Sydney;
South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne; Australian Galleries,
Melbourne; Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne; David Jones
Gallery, Sydney
1967 'Australian Painters 1964-66', The Corcoran Gallery
of Art, Washington, USA (the Mertz Collection)
1969 'Retrospective 1943-68', Villiers Gallery, Sydney
1984 Retrospective exhibition, Heide Park and Art
Gallery, Melbourne
1984 'JGL Collection: The Great Decades of Australian
Art', National Gallery of Victoria
1986 Adrian Slinger Gallery, Brisbane
1988 'Angry Penguins and Realist Painters in Melbourne
in the 1940s', Hayward Gallery, London
1989 BMG Fine Art, Sydney
1991
Australian Galleries, Sydney; Greenhill Galleries,
Perth
1992 Retrospective exhibition, National Gallery of
Victoria
2000 Retrospective exhibition, Galeria Aniela, Kangaroo
Valley, NSW
televised by the
ABC TV Australian National News. |
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Perceval selected
Major Exhibitions
1942-44, 48, 54 Annual exhibitions, Contemporary Art
Society, Melbourne
1956, 60 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1957 David Jones Gallery, Sydney
1959 'Angels', Museum of Modern Art of Australia,
Melbourne
1959 'The Antipodeans exhibition; Victorian Artists'
Society', Clune Galleries, Sydney
1961 '50 Australian Painters', Whitechapel Gallery,
London
1962 'Rebels and Precursors', National Gallery of
Victoria, touring State galleries
1963 VII Biennale, Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paolo,
Brazil
1963 'Australian Painting: Colonial, Impressionist,
Contemporary', Tate Gallery, London
1964 Zwemmer Gallery, London; Sotuh Yarra Gallery,
Melbourne
1966 Retrospective exhibition, Albert Hall, Canberra
1967-79 Various exhibitions at Clune Galleries, Sydney;
South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne; Australian Galleries,
Melbourne; Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne; David Jones
Gallery, Sydney
1967 'Australian Painters 1964-66', The Corcoran Gallery
of Art, Washington, USA (the Mertz Collection)
1969 'Retrospective 1943-68', Villiers Gallery, Sydney
1984 Retrospective exhibition, Heide Park and Art
Gallery, Melbourne
1984 'JGL Collection: The Great Decades of Australian
Art', National Gallery of Victoria
1986 Adrian Slinger Gallery, Brisbane
1988 'Angry Penguins and Realist Painters in Melbourne
in the 1940s', Hayward Gallery, London
1989 BMG Fine Art, Sydney
1991
Australian Galleries, Sydney; Greenhill Galleries,
Perth
1992 Retrospective exhibition, National Gallery of
Victoria
2000 Retrospective exhibition, Galeria Aniela, Kangaroo
Valley, NSW
televised by the
ABC TV Australian National News. |
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John Perceval hand written
letter to Aniela,
September 1999 writing Aniela helping
instructions to prepare his major
Retrospective in
Galeria Aniela
Fine Art Gallery and Sculpture Park.
Armed with Perceval
encouragement, Aniela asked the Australian
National Gallery of Australia Canberra
and Heidi Gallery in
Victoria
to participate in John
Perceval Major Retrospective
exhibition
19 August - 19 October 2000.
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John
Perceval,
Arthur Boyd,
Charles
Blackman
are
the most important Australian artists
who
dominated
Australian art scene
since
the Antipodean
Manifesto
in 1959 also
John Olsen,
Ray Crooke,
Gary Shead,
Andrew
Sibley
are most significant Australian artists.
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