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John
de Burgh Perceval (1923-2000) is one of the most important
Australian artists and the most
loved.
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John
Perceval
painted with
Arthur Boyd
"au plain air" and
they
became a good friends
also with
brothers
Guy and
David
Boyd.
He married their sister
Mary Boyd
living in
Murrumbeena in Victoria.
Perceval
studied
and worked
with Sidney Nolan and Albert Tucker.
John
Perceval
played a
major role in the Antipodean group in the late 1950s in
Melbourne.
In
1959 John Perceval signed the Antipodean Manifesto which determined the shape of Australian contemporary art.
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unfashionable and outdated.
Perceval
made an impact virtually
as soon as he
had begun to paint in the 1940s, when he exhibited in Melbourne
in 1942 at the
Contemporary Art Society
of Victoria, Australia.
By the 50's and the 60's John
Perceval
work had developed into an individual style giving him
an artistic acclaim as well as the financial success.
John
de Burgh
Perceval (1923-2000)
is
one of the Australia's most
important 20th century artists and one of the best loved artists.
Perceval
established Australia's legacy
along with
Arthur Boyd,
David Boyd
and
Charles Blackman.
1984
Heide
Art
Gallery and Park held John
Perceval major Retrospective Exhibition.
1992 the
National Gallery of Victoria
organized John Perceval major Retrospective of his paintings
(1945-1992).
2000
Galeria Aniela Fine Art Gallery and Sculpture Park held John Perceval
Retrospective Exhibition (19 August-19 October). Exhibition was officially opened by
Justin Miller, Chairman
of Sotheby’s
with over 80 works from 1946 to 1999
many previously unseen.
It was last Perceval major Retrospective and broadcast on the
Australian National News by
Anne Maria Nicholson,
a senior journalist with
ABC TV News
and Current Affairs.
Retrospective
exhibition was arranged with John Perceval personal assistance and
encouragement and support of
Ken McGregor
and a number of private collectors.
John Perceval remains one of the most important and best-loved
artists,
his contribution to important historical group and the development
of contemporary Australian art is significant. All major public and
private collections have acquired the representation of Perceval
works despite his relatively small body of work by comparison with
artists like Boyd and Nolan. With a contribution spanning nearly six
decades,
Perceval has produced fewer than 600 oil paintings.
From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia
John de
Burgh Perceval
AO
(1 February 1923 - 15 October 2000) was a well-known
Australian
artist.
Perceval was the last surviving member of a group known as the
Angry Penguins who redefined Australian
art in the 1940s. Other members included John and Sunday Reed,
Joy Hester,
Sidney Nolan,
Arthur Boyd and
Albert Tucker.
John Perceval a famous Australian
Painter and
Ceramicist was
born 1 February 1923 (1923-02-01)
in
Bruce Rock,
Western Australia,
Australia. Perceval birth name is
Linwood Robert Steven South). Died: 15 October
2000(2000-10-15)
(aged 77)
Melbourne,
Victoria,
Australia
Awards:
McCaughey Prize
(1958);
Wynne Prize (1960);
Officer of the Order of Australia
(1991)
Born Linwood Robert Steven South at
Bruce Rock,
Western Australia, the second child of
Robert South (a wheat farmer) and Dorothy née Dolton. His parents
separated in 1925 and he remained at his father's farm until reunited
with his mother in
Melbourne in 1935. Following the
marriage of his mother to William de Burgh Perceval, he changed his name
to John and adopted the surname de Burgh Perceval.
In 1938 Perceval contracted
polio and was hospitalised, giving him
the opportunity to further his skills at drawing and painting. Enlisting
in the army in 1941 Perceval first met and befriended
Arthur Boyd. After leaving the army and
moving into the Boyd family home at Open Country,
Murrumbeena, he married Boyd's younger
sister Mary in 1944. Together he and Mary Boyd produced four children.
Perceval held his first solo exhibition at the
Melbourne Book Club in 1948 and showed
regularly with the
Contemporary Art Society. Between 1949
and 1955 he concentrated on producing earthenware ceramics and helped to
establish the
Arthur Merric Boyd Pottery in
Murrumbeena. Returning to painting in 1956 Perceval produced a series of
images of
Williamstown and
Gaffney's Creek.
Moving to England in 1963 Perceval 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. Author
Margaret Plant's monograph John Perceval, was published in 1971.
Suffering from alcoholism and schizophrenia 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, the
year after the
National Gallery of Victoria organised
John Perceval: A Retrospective.
In
2000 from 19 August to 19 October John Perceval Retrospective
Exhibition was held in
Galeria Aniela Fine Art Gallery and Sculpture Park
officially opened by Chairman
Sotheby’s (included 80 oil paintings and works on paper from 1946
to 1999). It was Perceval last
Retrospective and shown on the ABC TV Australian National News.
Prior to
John Perceval
death Scudding Swans (1959) sold for
$552,500, a record for a living Australian painter. In March 2010 John
Perceval Scudding Swans sold for $690,000.
John Perceval
is survived by his four children; Matthew,
Tessa
Perceval and
Celia Perceval.
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