Robert Owen (born 1937)

THE SPEECHLESS FULL MOON COMES OUT FOR NOW (FOR AKIO), 1987-2000

synthetic polymer paint, graphite, mica gold leaf and pencil on canvas on nine panels 

61.0 x 61.0 cm (each)
183.0 x 183.0 cm (overall)

each panel signed and dated verso: Robert Owen / 1987- 2000
panels
1 & 9 inscribed with title verso: THE SPEACHLESS [sic] FULL MOON COMES OUT NOW (FOR AKIO) 

Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection, Sydney
Christie's, Melbourne, 25 June 2002, lot 67
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above

Robert Owen: Quietness (for Akio), Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, August 2000, cat. 11
Mute Reason, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 27 April – 25 August 2013
Robert Owen | Afterglow. In Focus: The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 2 December 2017 – 28 January 2018

Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 177 (illus.), 288

This work is located in our Melbourne Gallery

Condition:
This work is in excellent, stable and original condition.
The work comprises nine, separate, stretched canvas panels arranged on the wall in a grid.
The work is unframed, as originally exhibited.