Title
Double figure with shark head and horns
(1962-1963)
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Double Figure with Shark Head (From 'Elektra' backdrop)
- Date
- (1962-1963)
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching, aquatint, printed in black ink on white wove paper
- Edition
- 7/25
- Dimensions
- 34.9 x 40.2 cm platemark; 39.4 x 50.5 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., pencil "Arthur Boyd". Not dated.
- Credit
- Anonymous gift 1993
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 370.1993
- Copyright
- © Reproduced with permission of Bundanon Trust
- Artist information
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Arthur Boyd
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Arthur Boyd retrospective (1993-1994), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Dec 1993–06 Mar 1994
Arthur Boyd retrospective (1993-1994), National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 30 Mar 1994–23 May 1994
Arthur Boyd retrospective (1993-1994), Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 09 Jun 1994–21 Aug 1994
Arthur Boyd retrospective (1993-1994), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 22 Sep 1994–20 Nov 1994
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Darleen Bungey, Arthur Boyd: A life, Sydney, 2007, 344-346. Robert Helpmann's Royal Ballet production of Elektra with set and costume designs by Arthur Boyd.
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Janet McKenzie, Arthur Boyd: Art and life, 'Experimentation: Graphic work', pg. 116-129, London, 2000, 128 (illus.). titled "Double Figure with Shark Head (From 'Elektra' backdrop)"; Image reproduced not from AGNSW collection.
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Barry Pearce, Arthur Boyd retrospective, Sydney, 1993, 154, 155 (illus.). cat.no. 164
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Imre von Maltzahn, Arthur Boyd etchings and lithographs, London, 1971, (illus.). cat.no. 18
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