RETIREMENT, 1993

Modern + Contemporary Art
Melbourne
13 June 2018
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GARETH SANSOM

born 1939
RETIREMENT, 1993

oil on canvas

214.0 x 153.0 cm

signed and dated verso: Sansom ‘ 93

Estimate: 
$10,000 – 15,000
Sold for $12,200 (inc. BP) in Auction 54 - 13 June 2018, Melbourne
Provenance

Gene and Brian Sherman collection, Sydney, acquired directly from the artist in 1994

Exhibited

1st Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT1), Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 17 September – 5 December 1993

Literature

Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1993, p. 109 (illus.)

Catalogue text

Gareth Sansom lives and works in Melbourne

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2017 Gareth Sansom: Transformer, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2016 Today Tomorrow Yesterday, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia
2016 Painting. More Painting, ACCA, Melbourne
2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Magic Object, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2014 POP to Popism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2013 Mix Tape 1980s: Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2013 Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2012 Alternative Persona, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
2012 The Naked Face, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2011 Forever Young: 30 Years of the Heide Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria
2007 Cross Currents: Focus on Australian art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2005 Gareth Sansom: Welcome to my mind, a Study of Selected Works 1964–2005, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
1991 Seventh Triennale, New Delhi, India and touring Australia
1986 Gareth Sansom: Paintings 1956-1986, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne
1978 Gareth Sansom, Survey Exhibition, 1964-1978, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne

SELECTED LITERATURE
Crawford, A., Smee, S., and Wallis, P., Gareth Sansom: Transformer, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2017
Gareth Sansom, Alternative Persona, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria, 2012
Starr, B., Welcome to my mind: Gareth Sansom: a study of selected works 1964 – 2005, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2005
Gareth Sansom, paintings 1956-1986, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 1986

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart

REPRESENTED BY
Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Station Gallery, Melbourne