Ian Burn: four paintings and a drawing exercise, 1956–1961
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Guzzler is pleased to present a selection of Ian Burn juvenilia sourced from the artist’s brother Robert in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Burn is best known for his involvement in the transatlantic conceptual art collective Art & Language, but his early work is grounded in the traditional genres (landscape, still life, portrait). The exhibition gives a sense of Burn’s art leading up to and during his studies at the National Gallery, Melbourne and his encounter with modernism in the early 1960s.
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Still Life in Tonal Study, 1960, gouache on paper, 34 × 50 cm
Portrait of Margaret Burn, 1961, oil on canvas, 47 × 70 cm
Untitled drawing exercise (study of hands), c. 1960, pencil on paper, 42 × 56 cm
Old Hotel, 1956, watercolour on paper, 39 × 26 cm
Dead Gums, 1960, watercolour on paper, 49 × 50 cm
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