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:
$6,100 (inc. BP)
lot details
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)”
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