Brian Dunlop
Brian Dunlop
Untitled (study for ‘the meeting’), 1983
Brian Dunlop (1938 - 2009)
lithograph 21/30
23 x 28 cm, image
signed and numbered below image
Related works: Study for ‘The Meeting’, 1980-85, oil on canvas; The Meeting, 1980, illustrated in L. Strahan, Brian Dunlop, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990, p. 156, fig. 17 (illus).
$450 (framed)
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“The best of Brian’s works exude a poetic vulnerability and sensuality, perhaps seen in a silent pause or the lift of a curtain in the breeze. For many years Brian restricted his range of subject matter to the interior with window, often including a figure or still life. In these works “The room represents the mind, the windows the eyes looking out, curtains are the eyelids. A window is the division between inner and outer, spiritual and worldly”. Andrew Frost
Brian Dunlop was born in Sydney. He enjoyed early success in his art career winning a scholarship to the National Art School, Sydney. His draughtsmanship was recognised in 1958 when at the age of 18 he won the Le Gay Brereton Prize for drawing, and four years later one of his drawings was purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He travelled in Italy, Greece, North Africa, Spain and England, became passionate about Renaissance art and also the light of Europe. Back in Australia, Dunlop taught at the East Sydney Technical College and then the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education. In 1980 he was artist-in-residence at the University of Melbourne, and won the Sulman Prize for genre painting. He painted the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in 1984 for the 150th anniversary of the founding of Victoria. Monographs of his work were published in 1984 and 1990. Brian Dunlop’s work is held by the National Gallery of Australia, the National Portrait Gallery and all state galleries.