Item #CL200-106 Cooking Fish And Chips In Paradise [Neville Wran]. Paul Worstead, b.1950 Aust.
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Cooking Fish And Chips In Paradise [Neville Wran]

1976. Colour screenprint, 93.5 x 93.5cm. Slight stains to edges. Linen-backed.

Portrait of Neville Wran, Premier of NSW from 1976 to 1986. Held in NGA, noting image is from a group of nine prints. This portrait of Neville Wran was based on a photograph by Ray Fulton. Ref: Penrith Regional Gallery.

The following is an extract from Julie Ewington’s article entitled Andy Down Under: Warhol in Australia, which was one of the staff contributions to the Queenland Art Gallery of Modern Art’s publication on the Andy Warhol exhibition held in 2007: “During the 1970s Warhol’s reputation continued to grow with Australia artists. In the late 1970s Sydney printmakers Michael Callaghan and Paul Worstead both used Warhol’s celebrated off-registered screenprinted portraits for their own purposes. As a young art student, Callaghan had seen the 1973 Warhol print show at the Art Gallery of NSW and persuaded his family to buy a Mao print for his 21st birthday present. Its flamboyant beauty beguiled both Callaghan and his fellow student Paul Worstead, whose hilarious 1976 multiple portrait of then Labour premier of NSW, Neville Wran, entitled Cooking Fish and Chips in Paradise, is certainly the most straightforwardly Warholian work in Australian art. Not only does Worstead mimic Warhol’s manner, using lurid fluorescent inks and clashing colours and producing the print in at least nine different versions, but he clearly intends Warhol’s celebrity treatment to be satirical. In 1976 Warhol was barely visible in Australian cultural life, and his invocation here holds something of the characteristic Australian suspicion of American consumer culture. Far from being revered, Wran is treated with suspect queasy glamour.”

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Item #CL200-106

Price (AUD): $2,200.00  other currencies

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