Lot 11: LYNDELL BROWN (B. 1961) CHARLES GREEN (B. 1953)

L'EVIDENCE ETERNELLE (THE LOVERS) oil on linen 5 panels 46 x 46 cm each Painted in 1995 (5) PROVENANCE 13 Verity Street, Melbourne Private collection, Melbourne Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne Acquired from the above by the present owner in July 1998 LITERATURE J Engberg, The Lovers, Melbourne, 1995, p. 33 EXHIBITION Melbourne, 13 Verity Street, Charles Green & Lyndell Brown, ??? then the Lovers one NOTES "Aristotle has said that total union is the sole simple pleasure, and it is the promise of this pleasure which undoubtedly drives the lover's quest. Artists Lyndell Brown and Charles Green have sought this union in their art by co-authoring their pictures. In all their images the two genders coexist to offer up the spiritual, intellectual and physical manifestation of this fusion. Both Platonic and profane, their works, The painter's family and L'evidence eternelle (The Lovers ) promote the ideal of heart and mind in harmony. In each of their pictures the landscape of the cities, the Socratic space of the male is overlayed by the opulent and symbolic feminine symbols of drapery and anatomy, the corporeal space of the woman. In these pictorial spaces if the coexistence hands are presented - one male the other female - to allegorise the dual gender fusion. But these are not seamless harmonies. In each picture there is an unsettling resistance, a possibility of disunity. For a while they are collaborators, there is always the threat of traitorous intent, of being turned over to the enemy. Brown and Green are too knowing to image that the sexes which have for all time operated in different emotional and physical territories can abandon their place." (J Engberg, op.cit., p. 33).