Robert Jacks 'Harlequin Red Ground' mixed media would have more than doubled

would have more than doubled Velázquez's auction record

Arthur Boyd and others in 1953 and as Shaw noted

He plays on the concept of a muse

John Cullinane’s work is drawn from media

It is an ambivalent myth

Robert Jacks 'Harlequin Red Ground' mixed media would have more than doubledRobert Jacks represents one of Australias most esteemed and distinctive abstract artists. From selling out his first solo exhibition in 1966, spending ten years on a self described international internship in New York and Canada through to a major retrospective at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2014, Jacks spent a lifetime fine tuning his visual language. Against a succulent orange backdrop, Harlequin Red Ground centres an hourglass shape.