Philippe Le Miere 'Study for Anemone Jug Alice' nature

Philippe Le Miere 'Study for Anemone Jug Alice' naturePhilippe Le Mieres Anemone Jug Alice merges two bouquets of Australian art history Charles Blackmans Alice Jug (c. 1989) and Margaret Prestons Anemones (1925). Tinged with melancholy, Blackmans Alice Jug an image of anthropomorphic jug speaks to the experience of his wifes encroaching blindness. Like Alice, Barbara Blackman found herself navigating a disorientating realm, blooms reminiscent of the fragility of life. Prestons Anemones on the other

this is a powerful image by an exceptional artist

Washed in sunlit gold

This work will enrich collections of Australian figurative art

symbolic of his cultural identity

the auction house cited “ongoing discussions” with the painting’s owners

Together with other young Spanish artists of the period

and the curves melt into an egg and wave

he envisions New South Wales’s Pittwater

a face just discernible in the pigment

movement and the ability of sculpture to enchant and amaze the viewer

the British-born Alun Leach-Jones is considered as one of the foremost representatives of Australian abstraction

Are they plucked from Wonderland