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Details
- Date
- 1970s
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching on copper, black ink on ivory wove paper
- Edition
- 1/10
- Dimensions
- 14.7 x 15.0 cm platemark; 56.7 x 38.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., pencil "ZOFREA". Not dated.
- Credit
- Marshall Bequest Fund 1997
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 413.1997.3
- Copyright
- © Salvatore Zofrea/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Salvatore Zofrea
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About
Salvatore Zofrea was born in Borgia, a town in Calabria, Italy and arrived in Australia as a child in 1956. He attended classes at North Sydney Technical College under Henry Justelius, with whom he painted on weekends, the Julian Ashton School and East Sydney Technical College. In August 1971 he travelled to the UK and Europe. He re-visited Italy, including Borgia for the first time in 1982. His childhood in Borgia, emigration to Australia with his family and his early experiences in Australia are increasingly the subjects of his art, particularly his series of prints of etchings and woodcuts.
The Gallery has twenty etchings made by Zofrea in the 1970s, as well as the related copper etching plates. About his mother, Zofrea wrote: "One of her greatest pleasures was to cook for me when I entertained friends: this was a way of showing how much she cared for me and for my work. She was always very interested in the progress of my paintings and often used to sit up with me in the evenings while I worked. Her comments were always appreciative: 'That angel's got beautiful hair!', 'That woman's got very nice bosoms'. We'd often talk far into the night and in that last year of her life she increasingly reminisced about her childhood and early life in Borgia with her favourite sister, Lucia". (Stephanie Claire and Anna Waldmann, 'Salvatore Zofrea', Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1983, pg. 53)
Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, 'Australian prints from the Gallery's collection', AGNSW, 1998
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Australian prints from the Gallery's collection (1998-1999), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Nov 1998–07 Feb 1999
An expanded vision: Mary Turner collection, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, 27 Aug 2011–30 Oct 2011
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, Australian prints from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1998, 122 (illus.). cat.no. 103
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Ann Proudfoot (Curator), An expanded view: the Mary Turner Collection at Orange Regional Gallery, 'List of works', pg. 117-124, Orange, 2011, 124.
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