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Details
- Place where the work was made
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London
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England
- Date
- 1962
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- bronze
- Dimensions
- 147.5 x 29.0 x 24.0 cm
- Signature & date
Signed inside base, incised "OR ...".
- Credit
- Purchased 1967
- Location
- South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- SA2.1967
- Copyright
- © Oliffe Richmond Estate
- Artist information
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Oliffe Richmond
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About
Much of the active career of this Hobart-born sculptor was spent in London, where he lived and taught from the late 1940s until his death in 1977. Inspired by the work of Henry Moore, Richmond was a full-time assistant to him in 1949-50, continuing to count the revered English sculptor a mentor and friend. The carving techniques of his compatriots Ola Cohn and Lyndon Dadswell were of early significance to Richmond, their monumental effects giving way in his work to more attenuated forms. Richmond produced a sequence of standing figures in bronze, a material that suited his increasing interest in the scarification and corrosion of sculptural surface as a metaphor for inner states. Sentinel epitomises these stark, aggrieved, yet rigidly armoured personages. Though the reductionism of Giacometti is operative, Richmond's own excavatory strategies and emotional defensiveness dominate.
Art Gallery Handbook 1999
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Places
Where the work was made
London
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Exhibition history
Shown in 8 exhibitions
Oliffe Richmond (1962), Molton Gallery, London, 12 Sep 1962–29 Sep 1962
Australian painting and sculpture in Europe today (1963), Arts Centre New Metropole, Folkestone, 20 Apr 1963–26 May 1963
Australian painting and sculpture in Europe today (1963), Städel'sches Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main, , 04 Jul 1963–11 Aug 1963
Oliffe Richmond, Recent Sculpture (1967), Australian Sculpture Centre, Canberra, 04 Jun 1967–04 Jul 1967
Oliffe Richmond, Recent Sculpture (1967), Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, 26 Jul 1967–16 Aug 1967
Acquisitions 1967, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Mar 1968–01 Apr 1968
Oliffe Richmond (1968), David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, Sydney, 17 Jun 1968–06 Jul 1968
25th Anniversary Exhibition of the Society of Sculptors and Associates (1976), Sculptors Society at the Sculpture Centre, Australia, 21 Sep 1976–09 Oct 1976
Archie Plus, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 26 Sep 2020–07 Mar 2021
20th-Century galleries, ground level (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 10 publications
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Arts Centre New Metropole, Zeitgenössische Malerei und Skulpturen australischer Künstler in Europa, England, 1963, (illus.). cat.no. 45; bronze; not paginated
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Arts Centre New Metropole, Australian painting and sculpture in Europe today, England, 1963, (illus.). cat.no. 45; bronze; not paginated
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Deborah Edwards, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Mosaic and figure', pg. 213-214, Sydney, 2000, 223 (colour illus.), 302.
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Bruce James, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Australian Collection: Painting and Sculpture', pg. 102-181, Sydney, 1999, 164 (colour illus.).
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Ewen McDonald, AGNSW Collections, 'From Colonialism to late Modernism', pg. 7-106, Sydney, 1994, 74 (colour illus.).
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Ken Scarlett, Australian sculptors, 'Oliffe Richmond', pg. 560-63, Melbourne, 1980, 561 (illus.).
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Editor Unknown (Editor), The Canberra times, Ainslie, 08 Jun 1967, page unknown.
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1967 Acquisitions, Sydney, 1967, 41. cat.no. 54
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Sun-Herald, Sydney, 11 Jun 1967, page unknown.
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Bulletin, Sydney, 17 Jun 1967, page unknown.
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