OBNOXIOUS LIBERALS (TO GUSTON & BASQUIAT), 2002

Important Australian and International Fine Art
Sydney
13 September 2016
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GORDON BENNETT

(1955 – 2014)
OBNOXIOUS LIBERALS (TO GUSTON & BASQUIAT), 2002

synthetic polymer paint and wood boomerang on canvas on board

35.0 x 65.0 cm

inscribed and dated lower right: John Citizen 6.1.’02 / (Gordon Bennett is dead / imaginary / or left this place, ashamed to be / Australian, too alienated to / leave his house – he left the / country instead to find some- / where he won’t be demonised / anymore by white hypocrites… / and racists!) “Obnoxious Liberals (to Guston + Basquiat)”

Estimate: 
$5,000 – 7,000
Sold for $6,100 (inc. BP) in Auction 44 - 13 September 2016, Sydney
Provenance

The Redfern Community Foundation, Sydney (label attached verso)
Private collection, New South Wales

Exhibited

No Shame No More, auction of personalised boomerangs in aid of Aunt Polly’s Centre, Redfern, Sotheby’s, Sydney, 2002