Robert Clinch (born 1957)

TWENTY FOUR VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY PAGANINI, 1991

gouache, watercolour and dry brush on linen paper

92.0 x 146.0 cm
132.5 x 186.5 cm (frame)

signed and dated lower right: R Clinch '91
signed with monogram lower right: RC=
signed and inscribed with title verso: "TWENTY FOUR VARIATION [sic] / ON A THEME BY PAGANINI (A PORTRAIT OF TANYA ZORZ)"/ ROBERT CLINCH
Letter from the artist attached verso

Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, acquired directly from the artist
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 23 May 1991

BUS Art Collection, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, New South Wales, 16 March – 12 April 1992, cat. 76 (as ’25 Variations on a theme of Paganini’)
Robert Clinch: The Creative Process, McClelland Galleries, Langwarrin, Victoria, 1994
Themes and Variations, Manningham Art Gallery, Victoria, 14 – 31 July 2010
Real Life: Stories from the Inner Suburbs, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 16 April – 12 June 2011
Fanfare For The Common Man: The Art of Robert Clinch, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, 13 July – 12 November 2013, then touring to Wollongong Gallery, New South Wales, 22 September – 17 November 2013 (label attached verso)

Thomas, D., d’ART, The Art of Robert Clinch, The Lytlewode Press, Stoke on Trent, 2007, p. 10
Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 159 (illus.), 215
McEvoy, M., Themes and Variations, Manningham Gallery, Victoria, 2010, pp. 1,3 (illus. on front cover)
Clinch, R., et. al., Robert Clinch: Fanfare For The Common Man, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, 2013, pp. 28 (illus.), 29
Robert Clinch online catalogue raisonné [http://www.robertclinch.com/selected-images-24-variations-on-a-theme-by-paganini.htm] (accessed 28/6/22)