Discocacti 1986

Howard Arkley (1951-1999)

Discocacti 1986

synthetic polymer paint on canvas
160.0 x 120.0 cm

signed, dated and inscribed verso: title. Discocati [sic]/ Date. 1986/ size 160 x 120 cm/ Howard Arkley

Provenance:

Budget Transport Industries 'Young Australians' Collection

Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney

Sotheby's, Melbourne, 18 June 1995, lot 279

Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:

Howard Arkley, Recent Paintings, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, 20 September - 8 October 1986, cat.2

Young Australians: The Best of Young Australians, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, August 11 - September 9 1987, travelling to 14 regional galleries over the period 1987-1989, cat.14

Howard Arkley, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, 18 October - 30 November 1991, cat.56

20th Century Australian and New Zealand Painting, Martin Browne Fine Art at Mary Place Gallery, Sydney, 22 August - 28 September 1991, cat.70 (label attached verso)

Downtown, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 14 March - 14 May 1995

Reference:

Engberg, J., 'Indigenous, Indelible Arkley', Art and Australia, Autumn 1987, vol.24, no.3, p.386

Lindsay, R. (ed.), Young Australians: The Best of Young Australians (Exhibited by Budget Rent A Car), Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, 1987, p.14 (illus.)

Gregory, J., Carnival in Suburbia: The Art of Howard Arkley, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2006, p.172, cat.6.15 (illus. p.171)

Gregory, J., 'Discocacti 1986', Arkley Works [digital catalogue raisonné], http://arkleyworks.com/blog/2009/11/18/discocacti-1986/ (illus.)

Estimate: $90000 - 140000