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Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd AC OBE
1920-1999
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The Bride Series
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Shoalhaven Series |
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 Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd AC OBE is Australia's most
celebrated artist.
Legacy:
Tate Gallery London,
National Gallery of Australia,
Queensland Art Gallery,
National Gallery of Victoria,
Art
Gallery of NSW.
Exhibitions. Galeria Aniela had the privilege of hosting the ‘Best of Boyd’
exhibition, opened by the
Deputy Chairman of the
National Gallery of
Australia
Cameron O’Reilly.
This event garnered major national attention,
featuring on ABC TV’s
Australian National
News and
Sunday Afternoon
- a major media coup that secured an unprecedented
front page on the Sydney Morning Herald, a historic
first for any commercial art gallery in Australia.
AWARDS
Blue-chip Artist. Drowned Bridegroom
sold for $1.95M at Sotheby's (2018),
Bride in Hibiscus Bush
$1,779M at Smith & Singer (2025).
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The Masterworks:
The Bride and Shoalhaven Series
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The 'Brides'
is one of Boyd's most important series
of paintings that firmly established his reputation as an artist nationally and
internationally.
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Arthur Boyd 1920-1999
Bride with the Necklace
Shoalhaven River
& Pulpit Rock |
The Bride series
c. 1970-75
Medium: Oil on Board
Image: 30 x 21 cm
Framed: 65 x 56 cm
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Arthur Boyd 1920-1999
Bride and the Serpent
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The
Bride series painted 13/10/1995
Oil on Canvas
Image: 122 x 93 cm
Framed: 150 x 122 cm
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Exhibitions:
NOTES:
The
‘Bride and the Serpent’ is the last 'Bride' painting that Arthur
Boyd has created,
and was
televised on ABC TV’s
Australian National
News and
Sunday Afternoon.
The
'Bride' vertical
movement is replicated by the trunks of the trees, which divide the canvas by
stripes of white, grey and taupe. The
serene ‘figure’
in the landscape,
holds
the Serpent, representative of wisdom. With subtle
pastel
colors' of cerulean, blues, glowing crimson and creams
the ‘Bride’ pivots
understanding
and
amity.
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Arthur Boyd 1920-1999
Sleeping Bride|
The Bride series
1978-1985
Oil on Board, Signed lower right: 'Arthur Boyd'
Image: 71 x 51 cm
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About Boyd's 'Bride' paintings
The 'Bride' series is an integral part and will always be ranked as one of Boyd
pre-eminent contributions to Australia's contemporary art.
The ‘Bride’
paintings have the presence at major museums like:
Tate Gallery London,
National Gallery of
Australia,
Queensland Art Gallery,
National Gallery of
Victoria, and
Gallery of NSW,
confirming the stature of Arthur Boyd legacy in both, the International and the
Australian modern art.
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The
early Brides, titled
Love, Marriage and Death of
a half-caste, were exhibited for the 1st time at
Australian Galleries in
1958.
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Between 1960 and 1995, Boyd created
a small number of
‘Brides’, although they were concerned with similar ideas, but represented a
new direction, a significant departure from the earlier sombre series.
By contrast, the 1970-1995 ‘Brides’ are inspiring, conveyed optimism, and
suggesting a cultural change. The colours are typically Boyd - rich cerulean
and ultramarine blues, deep ochres and, creams,
create
a subtle glow and delightful dazzling
effect
on the eye.
In 2010
Tate acquires the
first Arthur Boyd Bride | The Telegraph London 15/06/2010.
Tate Britain lifts
the veil on Boyd bride | The Australian 18/06/2010
In 2015 Arthur
Boyd "Brides" were reunited at
Heide Museum of
Modern Art.
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Arthur Boyd 1920-1999
Shoalhaven
River
Escarpment |
Shoalhaven series
(1980-85)
Oil on Board Signed
Lower right: 'Arthur Boyd'
Image: 31 x 21 cm
Framed:
65 x 56 cm
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Related works
Arthur Boyd
had a strong relationship with the Shoalhaven River landscape.
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Shoalhaven Riverbank
Oil on composition
board, signed Arthur Boyd,
29 x 24 cm
Est: $30,000-40,000,
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Fine Art + Indigenous Art,
Sydney, 18/04/2018, Lot No. 17
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Blackbirds Over
Shoalhaven Riverbank 1985
Oil on board, signed
Arthur Boyd
35 x 28 cm
Est: $45,000-55,000,
Joel Fine Art, Australian & International Art, Melbourne,
14/08/2007, Lot No. 44
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$59,090 |
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Shoalhaven Riverbank
Oil on board, signed 'Arthur Boyd'
20 cm x 15 cm
Est: $18,000-25,000, Sotheby's, Russell Crowe: The Art of
Divorce (Art lots only), Sydney, 07/04/2018, Lot No. 98
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$46,360 |
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Cockatoos Over The Shoalhaven
Oil on board, signed lower right, 30 x 22 cm, Est: $22,000-28,000, GFL Fine Art,
Spring 2025 Fine Art, Perth, 18/11/2025, Lot No. 35 |
$42,550 |
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The Magic Flute Series |
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The
Early Brides -
Love, Marriage and Death of
a half-caste child
(1957-1960)
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Photos from Arthur Boyd's 'Bride' exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern
Art in Melbourne
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Historical Timeline: How the Bride & Shoalhaven Series
Began
1951
When 30-year-old Arthur Boyd travelled to Central
Australia where he witnessed the strained
relationships between indigenous Australians and
white Australians. Arthur Boyd was deeply moved by
stories of displacement and dispossession.
Boyd found in the Aboriginal settlements near Alice
Springs, in Central Australia, a race of displaced
people, caught between two cultures.
1957
Arthur
Boyd developed his first series of Bride images, known more formally as "Love,
Marriage and Death of a Half-caste". The early works in the series had as their
focus the relationship between Australia's white and indigenous occupants.
The 'Love, Marriage and Death of a Half Caste' series of paintings, painted
between 1957 and 1960, is known as the “Brides' series.
1958
The first 'Bride' series, consisting of 30 to 40 paintings, was exhibited
in 1958 at
Australian Galleries in Melbourne.
1960-1970
From the 1960s, however, Boyd's earlier political emphasis had changed: his
attention was fixed more on the subject of the 'Bride' in the landscape.
He
frequently combined the motif of a 'Bride' drinking from a river, it is a
play with the poetic ambivalence of metaphoric association.
1971- 1995
Arthur
Boyd visited Bundanon in 1971,
located on
the Shoalhaven River on the south coast of New South Wales.
The Bride's
appearance on the Shoalhaven landscape, has lightened, a shift prompted by the
acquisition of his beloved home -
Boyd Bundanon Art Museum.
During the 70's Arthur Boyd exhibited Shoalhaven series of paintings at Australian
Galleries and Fischer
Fine
Art gallery in
London.
These oils are now rare highly priced gems, keenly sought after by
Australian and international collectors on the World Art market.
Over the years, Arthur Boyd painted
scenes of the Shoalhaven River and
a few
'Bride' paintings
with
the surrounding bushland. This
resulted in one of the most significant series of ‘Shoalhaven
Series' of paintings
that are a fusion of Australian history and Boyd's European and Australian
background.
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Institutional
Biography & Legacy of Arthur Boyd
AUSTRALIAN PAINTER, POTTER, AND PRINTMAKER
Born:
July 24, 1920 - Murrumbeena, Victoria, Australia
Died: April
24, 1999 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Arthur Boyd was born into a family of artistic renown. Arthur Boyd’s
grandparents Emma Minnie (nee a’Beckett) and Arthur Merric Boyd were both
accomplished and recognised artists, exhibiting at the Royal Academy in London
and in various galleries in Melbourne. Arthur Merric was a traditional landscape
painter affiliated with the Heidelberg school. Arthur Boyd grandfather, Arthur
Merric Boyd was a New Zealand landscape artist who settled in Australia in 1886,
while his grandmother Emma Minnie, a member of the A'Beckett family, was an
accomplished painter. Both paternal grandparents exhibited at the Royal Academy,
London and Arthur Merric taught his grandson the skill of landscape painting in
the Heidelberg tradition. Boyd learnt ceramic art from his father, Merric Boyd
while family life revolved around art and religion.
At age 14 Arthur Boyd went to live with and learn from his grandfather, Arthur
Merric Boyd, on the Mornington Peninsula. He was influenced by his contact with
the Jewish immigrant artist Yosl Bergner, who introduced Boyd to such writers as
Dostoyevsky and Kafka. Boyd attended night classes at the National Gallery
School in Melbourne in 1935 and was taught by his parents, Merric and Doris Boyd
at their home in Murrumbeena, Victoria.
When Arthur Boyd was sixteen, he moved in with his paternal grandfather on the
Mornington Peninsula at Rosebud. Under Arthur Snr's guidance,
Boyd developed his skills by focusing on portraiture and seascapes of Port
Phillip. He enjoyed exploring the nearby bay and creeks by boat, and constructed
a cart so that he could carry painting supplies behind his bicycle.
Around the time of the outbreak of the
WWII,
Arthur Boyd moved to Melbourne where he met a number of European refugees and
Australian nationals whose physical disabilities barred them from joining the
war service. These displaced, desolate
and tortured
souls would occupy many of Boyd's paintings.
At the age of 17 Arthur Boyd held his first exhibited at the Seddon Gallery in
Melbourne. He was soon to move away from the light-toned, blue and gold palette
style of the Heidelberg School to a darker palette using freer more expressive
brush strokes. In the early forties Boyd came under the influence of social
realist, Yosl Bergner, and took painting lessons from Danila Vassilieff, an
expressionist artist. He was an active member of the Angry Penguins and shared a
studio with
John Perceval. The paintings of this time
already exhibited a Boyd characteristic: tension experienced on margins, such as
the boundary of sex/love, love/loathing.
PHOTO
(1943)
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Arthur Boyd (left) and
John Perceval at the Boyd's Murrumbeena property
In 1941 Boyd was conscripted to serve with the Cartographic Unit, he produced
several paintings that, according to the artist Sue Smith, were "painful images
of the dispossessed and the outcast".
Conscripted into the Cartographic Unit of the army in 1942 during the Second
World War, Boyd did not see active service, but the war supplied the subject
matter for his paintings of the 1940s, which featured the crippled and wounded
in turbulent settings. After the war he established the Arthur Merric Boyd
Pottery Workshop at Murrumbeena, with
John Perceval
and Peter Herbst.
In the late 1940s Boyd turned to the Bible as a way of expressing the horror and
suffering of war. Paintings such as
The expulsion, 1947-48 draw on biblical
narratives of punishment and depict nature as an overwhelming force controlling
the individual.
During the 1940s his work went through several phases including the painting of
a large mural at the home of his uncle, Martin Boyd, at Harkaway near Berwick,
Victoria.
A series of landscapes of north-west Victoria, a nine-metre ceramic
sculpture he built in Melbourne for the Olympic Games swimming pool in 1955 and
he celebrated his 'Half-Caste Bride' series painted 1957-59 after an earlier
visit to Central Australia.
On 6 March 1945 Boyd married fellow painter Yvonne Lennie whom he had met while
in military service. They lived at Open Country, and Arthur's first studio was
built in the grounds there from a modernist design by his cousin, Robin Boyd.
Soon after, Boyd,
John Perceval
(his brother-in-law) and Peter Herbst founded
the Arthur Merric Boyd Pottery Workshop at Murrumbeena where he and his
colleagues turned their attentions to pottery, ceramic decoration, and
sculpture.
Meanwhile, Arthur Boyd created a series of paintings, including two of his best
known, The Mourners and The Expulsion that drew on biblical
narratives of human cruelty as a way of broaching the theme of horror and
suffering in war.
Arthur Boyd liked to touch the paint, using his hands and fingers to manipulate
his oils; like a potter would shape his or her clay. Indeed, Boyd disliked being
called an "artist" and dismissed it as a "phoney romantic" ideal when he saw
himself rather as "a painter [...] a tradesman".
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Arthur Boyd travelled throughout the Wimmera
countryside of Victoria and Central Australia, devoting his energies to
landscape painting.
In 1951 Arthur Boyd visited Alice Springs where he met Aborigines for the 1st
time and was shocked at their near destitute living conditions.
Travelling around central Australia he was shocked by the
conditions in which Aboriginal people were living in Alice Springs.
This
experience initiated the Love, marriage and death of a half-caste series of 30-40
paintings, 'Love,
Marriage and Death of a Half-caste' (also known as The Bride).
Artworks represented the
figure of an Aboriginal
person of mixed descent as a neglected outsider. The series was exhibited in
Melbourne in 1958 where it raised contentious issues about the ongoing marginalisation of Aboriginal people.
E xhibited in 1958 in Melbourne, The
'Bride' series caused considerable controversy.
Arthur Boyd later said: "I'd like to feel that through my work there is a
possibility of making a contribution to a social progression or enlightenment"
During this time, Boyd also formed close friendships with members of the
modernist Heide Circle of artists. These included Albert Tucker, Joy Hester and
Sidney Nolan, and the art patrons John and Sunday Reed.
Arthur Boyd, however, maintained a cool distance from the group and its
hierarchical structure, preferring to root his artistic identity in the Boyd
family. Nevertheless, he felt an allegiance with the Heide artists' commitment
to Figurative Modernism as opposed to the fashion amongst many modernists for
abstraction.
1958 - Arthur Boyd, with fellow Australian landscape painter Arthur Streeton,
represented Australia at the Venice Biennale. Boyd again represented Australia
at the Venice Biennale in 1988 and 2000.
1959 - Arthur Boyd became affiliated with a newly founded group of
Melbourne-based artists (Charles Blackman,
David Boyd, John Brack, Robert
Dickerson,
John Perceval, and Clifton Pugh) who called themselves the
Antipodeans, and who, like the Heide circle of artists, worked to promote
figurative painting.
A prize-winning film was made in Melbourne about his 'Half-Caste Bride' series
by Tim Burstall and Patrick Ryan in 1959.
Boyd with the Antipodeans painters championed by art historian Bernard Smith,
who attempted to promote figurative art at a time when abstract painting and
sculpture was in the ascendancy.
The
the Antipodeans exhibition at the Whitechapel gallery
in London,
saw Boyd earn a living by designing sets for the ballets and operas, and by
producing etchings and ceramic paintings.
I n 1959
Boyd relocated to London with his family, where he remained until 1971. Despite
his English location, Boyd continued to depict Australian subjects, locating his
allegorical and mythical scenes in Australian bush settings (Nebuchadnezzar on
fire falling over a waterfall, 1966-68).
During the 1960s he lived mostly with
his family in London, exhibited widely and established an international
reputation including a Romeo and Juliet ceramic Triptych in 1964 to honour
Shakespeare's 400th anniversary.
1963 - Boyd has been awarded the H.G. Richards Memorial Prize, and appointed a
Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for eminent service to the visual arts. Boyd is also an accomplished sculptor and ceramist and was
responsible for the design of the tapestry in the reception hall at Parliament
House, Canberra.
1966 - Boyd made his only trip to Paris, along with fellow Australians Sidney
Nolan and Barry Humphries, to view a major
Picasso exhibition. Boyd made frequent
trips to London's National Gallery where he became captivated by the works of
Poussin,
Veronese,
Tintoretto, Piero di Cosimo, and
Rubens, as well as other Venetian,
Sienese and Florentine painters. During a trip to Venice, meanwhile, he fell in
love with the works of Giorgione.
The art critic Bryan Robertson noted that, "Some aspects of Arthur Boyd's
painting could be said to have been marginally affected by American art, notably
Abstract Expressionism, but Boyd's
allegiances were as direct to European art as his roots were in the splendid
Australian impressionism".
Arthur Boyd's years in England had in fact marked a more intense focus on
Australian subjects and landscapes. The eminent English art historian and museum
director Kenneth Clark was one of the first European collectors to support Boyd,
purchasing one of his paintings of the Australian outback. Boyd's stay in London
was capped off in 1970 when he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the
British Empire (OBE) for his services to the arts.
Arthur Boyd painted lyrical and emotive allegories on universal themes of love,
loss and shame, often located in the Australian bush. These artworks draw on a
wealth of literary and mythological sources as well as intensely personal and
often ambiguous symbolism. Boyd had a strong social conscience and his paintings
engage deeply with humanitarian issues.
1971 - Boyd and his family returned to Australia, eventually settling at
Bundanon on the Shoalhaven River in New South Wales where he continued to paint
landscapes. During 1971-72 for six months at ANU, Canberra, as a resident Fellow
in Creative Arts.
1975 - Boyd was awarded a Creative Arts Fellowship from the
Australian National University and donated several thousand works including
pastels, sculptures, ceramics, etchings, tapestries, paintings and drawings, to
the National Gallery of Australia. In 1975 he presented a large collection of
sculptures, etchings and paintings to the ANG Canberra and in 1984 was
commissioned to design the tapestry for the reception hall at new Parliament
House, Canberra. Worked in UK for part of 1989-90.
1976 - Boyd was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for his service
to the visual arts.
Around the time that his son, Jamie, came of age for military service, Boyd
signed a petition protesting against Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War.
1978 - Although he would continue to return periodically to England (always by
boat, as he feared flying), Boyd and his wife Yvonne settled permanently on the
Shoalhaven River, where they purchased two properties at Bundanon and
Riversdale. Boyd built additions onto the pre-existing buildings at both sites
to extend the homes and created new studio spaces. The rugged scenery
surrounding the Shoalhaven River inspired many of his later landscape paintings.
1979 - the ABC and BBC TV networks co-produced a documentary film, A
Man of Two Worlds, based on Boyd's life and work. In the early 1980s, he
protested against sand mining on the Shoalhaven River, one of Australia's
greatest natural assets.
Around that time, he was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of
Melbourne and in 1982 he donated his family villa in Paretaio, Tuscany to the
Australia Council's artist-in-residence program.
This gesture was followed by his so-called Australian Scapegoat series.
Featuring violent imagery and archetypes associated Australian military history
(to once more condemn the futility of war) Boyd explored constructions of
Australian identity in the lead up to the bicentenary of the arrival of the
First Fleet in 1988.
1988 - Arthur Boyd was commission by
Time Magazine
to paint
Earth and Fire as the cover for a special issue about
environmental conservation in Australia.
1992 - Arthur Boyd was appointed Companion of the Order of Australia.
1993 -
the Art Gallery of New South Wales held
Arthur Boyd major retrospective.
 1995
- Prime Minister Paul Keating named Boyd "Australian of the year" in
recognition of his contribution to Australian art, and his philanthropic work.
1997
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the
Galeria Aniela Fine Art
in NSW held
'Best of Boyd' exhibition
comprising 100 paintings and 40 bronze sculptures.
For the first time
ever,
six members of the artistic dynasty -
Arthur Boyd,
Guy Boyd,
David Boyd,
Jamie Boyd,
Lenore Boyd
along with
Tessa Perceval,
exhibited together.
2010
Arthur BOYD was honored by
Google. Inspired
by his 'Shoalhaven at Sunset'
Google reworked the company's logo
The Age, 24 July
2010
In February 1999, aged seventy-eight, Arthur Boyd suffered a heart attack
during a return journey from England.
Arthur Boyd
recovered from his
heart attack
and was released from
hospital, however he suffered a second, fatal, heart attack on 24 April 1999.
Arthur Boyd
was
survived by Yvonne and their children, Jamie, Polly, and Lucy who all continued
to work as artists.
The Legacy of Arthur Boyd
According to Edmond Capon, the Director Art Gallery of New South
Wales, "Few Australian artists have cast their vision across so
broad a landscape of ideas and traditions, both real and
mythological, as Arthur Boyd and few have sustained their creative
powers with such force and energy". His landscapes, biblical
allegories, and other works, many of which foreground the wild
beauty of the Australian wilderness, served as a model for
subsequent generations of Australian artists. Most notably, through
his involvement with the Heide circle of artists, and the
Antipodeans, he participated in the promotion of figurative art at a
time when abstraction was dominating the art market, inspiring other
Australian artists, like Piers Maxwell Dudley-Bateman, Robert
Dickerson, and John Brack, to do the same.
Moreover, Boyd's commitment to foregrounding humanitarian and social issues in
his works gave his art a deeper, more universal value. In this way, he connected
art with everyday life and pressing issues relevant to each historical moment he
lived through. Curator Barry Pearce notes that Boyd struggled with the demands
of the commercial art market, stating that "he found it very hard being enslaved
to the collectors [and] was constantly riven with anxiety".
Despite his
reservations, however, John Neylon summed his importance to Australian modernism
when he wrote: "Along with others of his generation ([Sidney]Nolan et al) Boyd
represented, for aspiring young artists in the 1960s, a model of what art should
be about - defiantly different to all the Australian art that had gone before.
When Nolan populated his 'Australian' landscapes with mytho-poetic figures,
emerging local artists were inspired. Boyd also fuelled this hunger for new,
creative narratives about Europism Down Under. But he was, and remains,
remarkably different".
Arthur Boyd's work has been offered at
auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 26 USD to 1,470,643
USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2001 the record
price for this artist at auction is 1,470,643 USD for Bride
Running Away,
sold at Smith
& Singer, Melbourne in
2012. Arthur Boyd
the most recent article is Australian
Superfund Cbus Will Liquidate $9 Million Australian Art Collection written
for Ocula in July 2022. The artist died in 1999.
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Arthur Boyd was
a f igurative
expressionist painter, ceramicist,
potter and printmaker from a family of artists.
Arthur Boyd is
considered one of Australia’s most significant modern artists (born in
1920), he was taught by his grandfather, prominent painter Arthur Merric Boyd.
AWARDS
1956 Signatory to
Antipodean Manifesto
1971 Britannica
Award
1979 OBE, London
UK
1979
Order of
Australia (OA) for services to the arts
1995 Australian
of the Year
EXHIBITIONS
Arthur
Boyd held many one-man shows in Australia and overseas over the years
including Zwemmer Gallery, London
1958
Venice Biennale and Australian Painters
1964-66
Exhibition (Mertz Collection) Corcoran Gallery
1962
Retrospective shows at Whitechapel Gallery,
London
1967
Washington DC USA
1969
Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
1971 ANU Canberra 1971-72 and Skinner
Gallery Perth
1973,80,83,86
Fischer Fine Art UK
1978,8
Rudy Komon Gallery
1979
Fremantle Arts Centre
1976,81,82,(retro),85,87
Australian Galleries Melbourne
1982
Qld. Uni. Art Museum
1983
Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong
Kong
1984,87
Wagner Gallery
1984
AGSA
1984,88
BMG Adelaide
1984
Tokyo and
Kyoto, Japan (Wagner Gallery)
1986,87,89von Bertouch,
Newcastle
1985
Works Gallery, Geelong
1985
Solander Canberra
1985
Holdsworth 1
1988
HPAC
1988 & 89(retro)
BMG
Sydney
1989
Wagner Gallery
1978
'Landscape and Image', Australian Gallery Directors Council Travelling
Exhibition to Indonesia
1985
Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC
1988
Commonwealth Institute, London
1988
Venice Biennale
1987
Australian
Consulate General, Los Angeles
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1993
a major
retrospective of Boyd work held at the Art Gallery of NSW
1993
Arthur and his wife Yvonne gifted their property Bundanon,
to Australian people
a major retrospective of Boyd’s work was
held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. In the same year, Arthur and his
wife Yvonne gifted their property Bundanon, comprising of 1,100 hectares, to the
Australian people.
1995 Arthur Boyd is awarded
the
Australian
of the Year
2021
2020
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Arthur Boyd: Landscape
Of The Soul ,The Geraldton Regional Art Gallery ,Geraldton, Australia
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Arthur Boyd ,Australian
Galleries, Melbourne (28 Derby St) ,Melbourne, Australia
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Arthur Boyd: Landscape
Of The Soul ,Cairns Art Gallery ,Cairns, Australia
2019
2017
2016
2014
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
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Rhythms of the Earth:
Selected Works from the TarraWarra Museum of Art Collection ,TarraWarra
Museum of Art ,Healesville, Australia
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The Hirst Collection of
Australian and International Art ,Philip Bacon Galleries ,New Farm,
Australia
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Abstraction & Bronze
,Australian Galleries, Melbourne (35 Derby St) ,Melbourne, Australia
2021
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Modern Australia ,Bendigo
Art Gallery ,Bendigo, Australia
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The Figure ,Philip Bacon
Galleries ,New Farm, Australia
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Blue Chip XXIII ,Niagara
Galleries ,Melbourne, Australia
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Summer Exhibition
,Philip Bacon Galleries ,New Farm, Australia
2020
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Wonder+Dread: Art in the
Land of Weather Extremes ,Shoalhaven Regional Gallery ,Norway, Australia
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House of Ideas ,Heide
Museum of Modern Art ,Bulleen, Australia
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Myth ,Nanda Hobbs
,Chippendale, Australia
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MPRG: Fifty ,Mornington
Peninsula Regional Gallery (MPRG) ,Mornington, Australia
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Left of Field ,Charles
Nodrum Gallery ,Richmond, Australia
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Important Australian
Paintings ,Philip Bacon Galleries ,New Farm, Australia
2019
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Stories in clay: Arthur
Merric Boyd Pottery ,Glen Eira City Council Gallery ,Melbourne, Australia
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The Boyd Family: A
Legacy Of Pottery ,SAM, Shepparton Art Museum ,Shepparton, Australia
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Continuum: Southern
Highlands Printmakers ,Orange Regional Gallery ,Orange, Australia
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Water, Soil & Life
,Charles Nodrum Gallery ,Richmond, Australia
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Papermade ,Australian
Galleries, Melbourne (35 Derby St) ,Melbourne, Australia
2018
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Summer Exhibition
,Philip Bacon Galleries ,New Farm, Australia
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Looking & Looked At
,Charles Nodrum Gallery ,Richmond, Australia
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Heide I: House of Ideas
,Heide Museum of Modern Art ,Bulleen, Australia
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The Gift of Art ,Bunbury
Regional Art Galleries ,Bunbury, Australia
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Summer Exhibition
,Philip Bacon Galleries ,New Farm, Australia
2017
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Summer Exhibition
,Philip Bacon Galleries ,New Farm, Australia
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Painting Memory: From
the Collection ,Newcastle Art Gallery ,Newcastle, Australia
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50fifty ,The John Curtin
Gallery ,Bentley, Australia
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A Selection from a
Distinguished Private Collection ,Watters Gallery ,Darlinghurst, Sydney,
Australia
2016
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Black Mist Burnt
Country: Testing the Bomb ,Art Gallery of Ballarat ,Ballarat, Australia
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Black Mist Burnt
Country: Testing the Bomb Maralinga and Australian Art ,S.H. Ervin Gallery
,Sydney, Australia
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Making History: The
Angry Penguins ,Heide Museum of Modern Art ,Bulleen, Australia
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Cream: Four Decades of
Australian Art ,Cairns Art Gallery ,Cairns, Australia
2015
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Four Tens: Forty Years
Of Australian Art, 1940–1980 ,Art Gallery of Ballarat ,Ballarat, Australia
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CREAM: Four decades of
Australian Art ,Artspace Mackay ,Mackay, Australia
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In Fond Memory: The
Barbara Tucker Gift ,Heide Museum of Modern Art ,Bulleen, Australia
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Halcyon Days Heide in
The 1940s ,Heide Museum of Modern Art ,Bulleen, Australia
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Imagining Ned ,Bendigo
Art Gallery ,Bendigo, Australia
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Galeria Aniela:
Investment-Grade Artworks of Flawless Provenance
An independent advisory and procurement service for
significant original artworks by renowned Australian
artists. Combining over 30 years of fine art expertise,
we help you seamlessly navigate the art market,
optimising your
time
and securing maximum
value.
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Borderless Procurement:
We transitioned to a fully integrated
international digital model, catering to an
international clientele of global collectors while
proudly supporting
Australian artists.
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Trusted Connections:
By cultivating meaningful personal relationships, we
build deep trust and genuine, long-term
partnerships, delivering an exceptional and
rewarding acquisition experience since 1994.
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Acquire or Sell Investment-Grade
Artworks
Utilizing our extensive industry network, we assist you
in identifying the optimal, most profitable pathways, whether you are a first-time buyer
or an astute investor, we guide you
through every aspect of fine art transactions, providing
trusted expertise.
If you wish to
acquire
or sell works by
Arthur Boyd,
Brett Whiteley,
Fred Williams,
John Perceval or other significant artists—or if you require an
independent professional valuation referral—please
contact our
specialist.
Phone:
+61 409 980 618
Email:
art@galeriaaniela.com.au
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Three Decades of Fine Art Heritage and Global Acclaim
Founded in 1994, Galeria Aniela Fine Art has gained high
acclaim in Australia and internationally for featuring
world-class
artists
and hosting historic
exhibitions.
Distinguished Guests & Cultural Icons
Over the years, Galeria Aniela has had the unique
privilege of welcoming esteemed guests, celebrities, and
art patrons to our exhibitions. Featured below are
historic visits from international icon
Sir David Attenborough,
Cameron O’Reilly,
and former Australian Prime Minister
Bob Hawke.
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Sir David Attenborough and Aniela Kos in Galeria
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Aniela Kos, Bob Hawke and Blanche D'Alpuget
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Jamie Boyd and Aniela Kos with
Cameron O’Reilly
(1997) | Aniela Kos
and
Cameron Menzies
(Nov. 2023)
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The Legacy of the Boyd Family
The enduring friendship between Galeria Aniela and the
legendary
Boyd family has been a defining force in our
journey, marking over three decades of collaboration and
shared artistic vision. Our
close relationship with
Arthur Boyd
began in 1995, and his monumental legacy remains a focal
point of the Australian art world. It has been a true
privilege to nurture this friendship and host numerous
exhibitions of the Boyd family’s profound work.
Historical Milestone: Partnership with
Arthur Boyd
and
His Family
 Galeria Aniela Fine Art
Gallery
and Sculpture Park had the distinct privilege of hosting the landmark
‘Best of Boyd’ exhibition. The monumental showcase
comprised 80 paintings and 40 bronze sculptures. The
event was officially opened by
Cameron O’Reilly, the
Deputy Chairman of the
National Gallery of
Australia.
For
the first time, six members of the artistic dynasty—Arthur
Boyd,
Guy Boyd,
David Boyd,
Jamie Boyd,
Lenore Boyd
along with
Tessa Perceval—exhibited
together under one roof.
This historic event garnered
major national attention, featuring on ABC TV’s
Australian National
News and
Sunday Afternoon—a
major media coup that secured an unprecedented front
page on
the Sydney
Morning Herald—a
historic first for any commercial fine art gallery in
Australia.
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Works of art live for generations, constantly reborn in the minds of
the beholders to bring new meanings, new dreams, new ways of seeing
and experiencing the world.
Be part of this magic world of amazing
fine art from the ocean of tranquility
to
conquer the heart, mind and soul.
The vision of Galeria Aniela is to increase the awareness of
Australian
artists
cultural contribution. With passion and
dedication, we strive for high ideals to create a better future for
the artists and
the arts.
When you purchase Art from Galeria Aniela,
you make a valuable contribution to our mission of helping artists
to make a living with their creations and together we make a
difference.
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