Icon (triptych) 1983
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 158.5 x 245 overall
signed and dated [on reverse: ‘Howard Arkley 83’]
Artbank Collection, Sydney
First shown in Arkley’s solo show at Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney, June 1983, and then purchased for Artbank.
The 3-panel format echoes traditional medieval and Renaissance altarpieces; the central panel reprises the composition of Untitled [Icon study #2] (1982) [W/P]. The central head also appears as T.V.Injun (1983) [W/P].
Provenance
- purchased for Artbank from Roslyn Oxley9, 1983
Exhibited
- HA Roslyn Oxley9, 6/83, cat.10 (size listed as 160 x 250)
- HA Monash 1991, cat.33 (details as above)
- HA retrospective 2006-7 [as Icon (c.1983); size as above; shown in Melbourne only]
Literature
- Dysart & Dunn 2001, pp.74-5 (inc. ill.)