Hilarie Mais (British/Australian, born 1952)

BLIND SIMILE, 1997

oil on timber and oil on canvas (diptych)

60.0 x 60.0 cm (each)
120.0 x 120.0 cm (overall)

both panels signed, dated and inscribed with title verso: Hilarie Mais 1997 / Blind Simile

Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne (label attached verso)
The Lowenstein Sharp Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above
Deutscher~Menzies, Melbourne, 11 November 2002, lot 50
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above

Hilarie Mais, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, 23 May – 18 June 1998, cat. 7
Essential, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 8 May – 5 September 2010
Mute Reason, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 27 April – 25 August 2013
on long term loan to Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria

Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 173 (illus.) 224

This work is located in our Melbourne Gallery

Condition:
This work is in very good, stable and near original condition.
The work is created in two panels.
The right hand panel is a canvas support over a timber stretcher in the traditional manner, which has a series of soft scuff marks on the surface.
The left hand panel was created using timber and screws, which feature in the finished work.
The left side of the left panel appears to have a ten centimetre vertical band, where the surface has discoloured (yellowed) over time.
Under ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of past restoration.