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GEOFF LA GERCHE (born 1940) Bennelong Restaurant 1978 oil on linen artist's name, title and date on label verso 213 x 243.5cm PROVENANCE: The National Australia Bank Art Collection (label verso) EXHIBITIONS: The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries From the Collection of National Australia Bank, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 15 October - 28 November 1982 LITERATURE: Lindsay, R. (ed.), The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries From the Collection of National Australia Bank, The National Bank of Australasia, Melbourne, 1982, pl. 54, p. 67 (illus.) "I was brought up to believe that working from photographs was cheating. There is irony in the fact that since I have begun to interpret photos, the paintings take twice as long to complete. They require a much more intense discipline - a new kind of invention of means rather than of forms. I use the photograph as a tool to capture a precise moment, an experience or visual event. A painting such as the Bennelong Restaurant (Sydney Opera House) is more than just a photograph of this place. It is an interpretation, for as I paint each segment I am adding to it my own knowledge, marks and love of paint. I strive for an intimacy of vision which I hope communicates to the viewer as it must first do for me, the artist" (Artist's Statement, p. 67)