Robert Grieve
Robert Grieve
not titled (abstract), 1968
Robert Grieve (1924 – 2006)
lithograph 37/131
printed image, irregular 43.2 x 31 cm
editioned and signed below image
Other notes: Other impressions of this work are in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, NGA 2005.975; National Gallery of Victoria, Accession No: 1995.375; Queensland Art Gallery Accession No: 2:0614 and Geelong Gallery Accession No 1968.2.
$200 (framed)
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“I cannot help being excited by the contrasts and harmonies between natural and man-made objects, between patterns and irregularity, straight and curved lines, texture and smoothness.” Robert Grieve
“A quiet master whose possessed an enormous evocative power and an elegant dignity” Sasha Grishin, art critic and historian
Robert Grieve was born in Melbourne. After graduating with a degree in biochemistry at Melbourne University in 1945 he started having formal art lessons and joined the Victorian Artists’ Society attending evening life-classes alongside artists such as Fred Williams. He continued studies in London attended evening life-classes and lithographic studies. In 1956, two years after returning to Australia, he taught printmaking, part-time at Swinburne Technical College.
Grieve had his first exhibition in 1948 and followed with over 50 exhibitions during his career He won many awards including the the Maude Vizard-Wholohan Print Prize in 1960 and the Gold Coast Print Prize in1979. A book on Robert Grieve’s life and work was published in 1995.
Robert Grieve is in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of N.S.W., the Art Gallery of W.A., the Queensland Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of S.A. and many regional galleries.