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Robert Clinch, TWENTY FOUR VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY PAGANINI, 1991

Sold for A$120,000 at Deutscher and Hackett on Aug 9, 2022.

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ROBERT CLINCH born 1957 TWENTY FOUR VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY PAGANINI, 1991 gouache, watercolour and dry brush on linen paper 92.0 x 146.0 cm 132.5 x 186.5 cm (frame) signed and dated lower right: R Clinch '91 signed with monogram lower right: RC= signed and inscribed with title verso: "TWENTY FOUR VARIATION [sic] / ON A THEME BY PAGANINI (A PORTRAIT OF TANYA ZORZ)"/ ROBERT CLINCH Letter from the artist attached verso PROVENANCE Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, acquired directly from the artist The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 23 May 1991 EXHIBITED BUS Art Collection, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, New South Wales, 16 March – 12 April 1992, cat. 76 (as ’25 Variations on a theme of Paganini’) Robert Clinch: The Creative Process, McClelland Galleries, Langwarrin, Victoria, 1994 Themes and Variations, Manningham Art Gallery, Victoria, 14 – 31 July 2010 Real Life: Stories from the Inner Suburbs, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 16 April – 12 June 2011 Fanfare For The Common Man: The Art of Robert Clinch, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, 13 July – 12 November 2013, then touring to Wollongong Gallery, New South Wales, 22 September – 17 November 2013 (label attached verso) LITERATURE Thomas, D., d’ART, The Art of Robert Clinch, The Lytlewode Press, Stoke on Trent, 2007, p. 10 Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 159 (illus.), 215  McEvoy, M., Themes and Variations, Manningham Gallery, Victoria, 2010, pp. 1,3 (illus. on front cover) Clinch, R., et. al., Robert Clinch: Fanfare For The Common Man, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, 2013, pp. 28 (illus.), 29 Robert Clinch online catalogue raisonné [http://www.robertclinch.com/selected–images–24–variations–on–a–theme–by–paganini.htm] (accessed 28/6/22) This work is located in our Sydney Gallery © Robert Clinch

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