Soomerki, 1989
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
182.5 x 243.5 cm
signed, dated and inscribed with title ‘Soomerki/1989/L. Dumbrell’ (on the reverse)
Provenance
Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne (label attached verso)
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 25 October 1990
CBUS Collection Part II, Modern + Contemporary Art, Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 9 August 2022, Lot No. 30
Acquired by the present owner from the above
Exhibited
CBUS Art Collection, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, New South Wales, 16 March - 12 April 1992, cat. 66
and then on long term loan to Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria until 2022
Literature
Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 15, 218
"To experience the art of Lesley Dumbrell is to experience a frisson of recognition. Looking at a painting, one can perceive a time of day or season of the year, a flicker of shadow or light dancing on the water, the fall of leaves, the steadying line of the horizon, the rustle of textiles, a gust of wind, the rhythms and notes of music, sentiments stirred by an experience long past. Entirely abstract, Dumbrell's oeuvre is powerful in its capacity to evoke sensation and emotion with connections to both the tangible world and the intangible consciousness of being alive" (Anne Ryan, 'Setting Colour in Motion', Lesley Dumbrell Thrum, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2024, p.9)
