Lot 45: TONY CLARK B. 1954 SECTIONS FROM CLARK'S MYRIORAMA

Oil on canvas boards
Signed and dated 1985-90 on the reverse of panels 13 and 20; each panel numbered, 1-23, on the reverse Provenance Deloitte Collection, Melbourne Exhibited City Gallery, Melbourne (label on the reverse) Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne (label on the reverse) Reference Lovegrove, K., Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Contemporary Art Collection, Impact Art, Melbourne, n.d. Tony Clark's landscape panorama 'Myriorama' takes its name from a parlour game, a game of representation invented by an Englishman named John Clark in 1824. By virtue of their disguised common horizon point, the separate components of the work can be intermixed to present a continuous landscape scene. Tony Clark evokes masters of classical landscape such as Claude Lorraine, with consciously romantic and decorative intent; and by juxtaposing historical 'high art' with popular forms he explores perceptions of the cultural artifacts of one place and time from the vantage point of another.

23 panels, each 30.5 by 22.5 cm; overall 30.5 by 520 cm