ARTHUR BOYD-ORIG-ETCHING COLLAGRAPH -'REFLECTING ROCKS'

Title:  'Reflecting Rocks' in pencil, CB.

Artist:  Signed in pencil, Arthur Boyd '97 BR .

Numbered:  54/70 in pencil BL.

Printer & Publisher Chops: Under signature, BR.

Original etching/collagraph, image size: 670x790 paper size: 770x970.  As new condition, no creases, folds, rips or tears. As new colour, clean and loose. Hand deckled 100% acid free heavy paper. Some minor remnants of printing colour in margins as a result of  procedures involved in the etching/collagraph process. Collagraphy involves building up the etching plate adding a raised textural quality to the finished etching. 

This image is an original and not a modern reproduction. 

Arthur Boyd studied at the National Gallery Art School, Melbourne. Before that he became familiar with art at an early age within the family circle, his father, Merric Boyd, was a potter and sculptor, his mother, Doris was a painter and potter; his grandparents, Arthur Merric Boyd and Emma Minnie Boyd, were both landscape painters; his uncle, Penleigh Boyd was a painter, his brother, David and his sisters Lucy and Mary, are painters; his brother Guy, a potter.

Arthur Boyd attended Murrumbeena State School and won many prizes for drawing. At the age of 17 he went to live with his grandfather who taught him the rudiments of painting in the Heidelberg, (Victoria), impressionist tradition. Arthur had his first solo exhibition in Melbourne in 1939 and shortly afterwards, joined the army and spent three years mainly in the Field Survey Corps, here he met John Percival, later to become his brother-in-law. After discharge from the army in 1943, he founded a pottery in Murrumbeena with John Percival and Peter Herbst. Arthur decided to spend all of his time painting and sculpting .

During the 1940's his work went through several phases including the painting of a large mural at the home of his uncle, Martin Boyd.  Arthur also painted a series of landscapes of north west Victoria. During the 1950's his works included a 9 metre ceramic sculpture for the 1956 Melbourne Olympics; and his celebrated 'Half Caste Bride' series.  During the 1960's, Arthur lived mostly with his family in London, exhibited widely and established an international reputation including  a 'Romeo and Juliet' ceramic tryptich in 1964 to honour Shakespeare's 400th anniversary.

He returned to Australia and in 1972, purchased the property, 'Bundanon' on the Shoalhaven river south of Sydney, he also took up a position at the Australian National University as Resident Fellow in Creative Arts. During the 1990's he gave the property 'Bundanon' to the Australian people. It is also used as a  refuge for artists and musicians, besides as a centre for arts and education run by the Bundanon Trust.  Further details on Arthur's work can be obtained of course from bookshops, online and from libraries.

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