Australian (b. 1957)
Empire (2008)
Hand-drawn lithograph
19.5cm by 20.5cm
Edition of 40
Signed and dated ‘Clinch ’08’ lower right
Provenance:
Robert Clinch, Melbourne
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above
Collections:
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (ed. 2/40); The State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Exhibited:
‘Black & White‘, Hill-Smith Gallery, Adelaide, 2008 (another example)
‘Solitary Perspectives‘, Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton, 2009 (another example)
‘Lithographs, Drawings & Egg Tempera‘, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, 2009 (another example)
‘Themes & Variations‘, Manningham Gallery, City of Manningham, 2010 (another example)
‘Real Life: Stories from the Inner Suburbs‘, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, 2011 (another example)
‘Robert Clinch‘, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, 2011 (another example)
‘Parallel Lines; Recent work by Robert Clinch and Peter Serwan‘, Riddoch Gallery, Mt Gambier, 2011 (another example)
‘Robert Clinch: Fanfare for the common man‘, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat; Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong, 2013
‘Robert Clinch: Sounds of Silence‘, The National Museum in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland, 2014 (another example)
‘Empire‘ a more abstract and philosophical work than some examples in the suite. All empires must fall, it is a rule as eventual as gravity.