Robert Klippel
No title (No. 83b; No. 53; No. 44; No. 39; No. 82a; No. 82b; No. 54; No. 40; No. 29; No. 30)
mixed media including polychromed tin, plastic, metal, wire, enamel paint and synthetic polymer paint
dimensions variable, tallest is 9.6 cm
Price on Application
Exhibitions:
-klippel/klippel – opus 2008, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 7 August – 2 November 2008
Poetically Microscopic from the Estate of Robert Klippel, Annette Larkin Fine Art, Sydney, 25 October – 1 December 2018, cat. 3
Literature:
Gerard Vaughan, Frances Lindsay, Deborah Edwards, Todd Wagstaff, - klippel/klippel – opus 2008, Melbourne, illus. p.16-17, p.58-59
These ten miniatures have been selected from works that Klippel made from 1985-1995. They see Klippel’s return to representation, with the techniques from the larger scale sculptures applied to great effect in diminutive renderings of mechanical forms – bicycles, trumpets and umbrellas – as well as natural ones. The heart of the works are their warm, good-humoured nature, manifested through their striking colour and instantly identifiable symbols like Cupid’s arrow striking through a heart. There are nods, too, to the Australian art world, including an old orange badge that patrons used to receive upon entering the National Gallery of Australia.
