Robert Clinch (born 1957)

“WHY?”, 1986

gouache, watercolour and drybrush on linen paper

63.0 x 96.0 cm
95.5 x 126.0 cm (frame)

signed and dated lower right: Clinch '86
signed with monogram lower right: RC
signed verso: Robert Clinch

Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the artist in 1986

Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 December 1987 – 7 February 1988
Robert Clinch: Fanfare for the common man, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, 13 July – 8 September 2013 (label attached verso); Wollongong Gallery, New South Wales, 22 September – 17 November 2013

Robert Clinch: Fanfare for the common man, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, 2013, p. 52 (illus.)

Study for Why?, watercolour on paper, 16.0 x 21.0 cm, Collection of the artist