Richard Larter (1929 - 2014)

TIME, PURPOSE AND FORMALISM NOS 1, 2 AND 3 : THE BATTLE FOR THE PAGODAS, 1966

triptych
enamel on compostion board

121.0 x 61.0 cm (each)
121.0 x 183.0 cm (overall)
125.0 x 186.0 cm (frame)

each signed with intitals and dated: RL 66 
inscribed with title verso: Time Purpose + Formalism / NOS 1, 2 + 3 triptyich / ‘The Battle for the Pagodas’

Watters Gallery, Sydney
The Laverty Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in 1984

Time, Purpose And Formalism No. 4: ‘The Battle For The Pagodas’, 1966, enamel on composition board, 137.0 x 91.7 cm, in the collection of Queensland Art Gallery|Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

This work is located in our Melbourne Gallery

Condition:
This work is in very good, stable and near original condition.
The work is created on three sheets of composition board famed together; each board is individually signed and dated.
There are some minor surface blemishes or abrasions across the surface of the work consistent with age, materials used and the artist’s working methods.
Each of these losses is consistent with the work being handled in the studio prior to being framed.
The work is housed in its original handmade artist’s frame.