Sunday, July 7, 2024

Riley - Shunsen - Sendak - Richter

Bridget Riley
Two Reds with Violet
2008
acrylic on canvas
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Bridget Riley
Measure of Measure 1
2016
acrylic on canvas
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Bridget Riley
R2016: Four-Colour Study with Black and White
1981
gouache on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Bridget Riley
Scale Study for Static
1966
gouache on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Natori Shunsen
Ichikawa Sadanji II as Narukami in Narukami
1926
color woodblock print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Natori Shunsen
Jitsukawa Enjaku II
as Danshichi Kurobei in Summer Festival

1926
color woodblock print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Natori Shunsen
Matsumoto Koshiro VII
as Ikyu in Sukeroku: Flower of Edo

1929
color woodblock print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Natori Shunsen
Matsumoto Koshiro VII
as Umeomaru in Sugawara's Secrets

1926
color woodblock print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Maurice Sendak
Ida
1977
etching, drypoint, aquatint and mezzotint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Maurice Sendak
Faithful Nutcracker
1984
lithograph
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Maurice Sendak
Study for The Magic Flute
2002
lithograph
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Maurice Sendak
Queen of the Night
2002
lithograph
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Gerhard Richter
Helga Matura
1966
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Gerhard Richter
Swiss Alps
1969
screenprint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Gerhard Richter
Abstract Painting (812)
1994
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Gerhard Richter
Juno
1983
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

from Ten Songs

Warm are the still and lucky miles,
White shores of longing stretch away,
A light of recognition fills
     The whole great day, and bright
The tiny world of lovers' arms.

Silence invades the breathing wood
Where drowsy limbs a treasure keep,
Now greenly falls the learned shade
     Across the sleeping brows
And stirs their secret to a smile.

Restored! Returned! The lost are borne
On seas of shipwreck home at last:
See! In a fire of praising burns
     the dry dumb past, and we 
Our life-day long shall part no more. 

– W.H. Auden (1939)