John Kelly (b.1965)
Lot 88

John Kelly (b.1965)

Cow up a tree

Closed12 December 2007

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GBP 19,700

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John Kelly (b.1965)
Cow up a tree
signed and dated 'Klly 97' (lower right)
oil on canvas
19 7/8 x 15 15/16in. (50.5 x 40.5cm.)

with Niagara Galleries, Richmond, Victoria.

Specialist note

Kelly's cows were supposedly inspired by Dobell's papier mâché cows commissioned from the artist during the war to camouflage rural runways. The present composition, which clearly derives from Nolan's famous drought photographs and subsequent paintings, was also cast in bronze and exhibited at Les Champs de Sculpture II on the Champs-Elysées, Paris in 2001.