Robert Klippel

Collage
pastel on paper
signed and dated 'Robert Klippel 1993' (lower right)
101 x 150 cm

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Provenance:

The Robert Klippel Estate

Exhibitions:

Robert Klippel - Collages, Watters Gallery, Sydney, 19 October - 3 November 1994, cat. 6
Robert Klippel - Large Wood Sculptures and Collages, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 June - 13 August 1995, uncat. 

Literature:

Geoffrey Legge, Robert Klippel - Collages, Watters Gallery, Sydney, exh. cat. 1994, illus.
Deborah Edwards, Robert Klippel - Large Wood Sculptures and Collages, Sydney, 1995, exh. cat., p. 46

Robert Klippel exhibited with Watters Gallery for well over two decades. Watters Gallery director Geoffrey Legge noted in the 1994 exhibition catalogue when this work was first shown, that many of Klippel’s works use different sources, including coloured, glossy magazine paper, photocopies of these pages, or hand-painted paper “using, in the main, bold flat acrylic colours”. As Legge notes, there is a certain minimalism in Klippel’s collage works, as if these works were “about achieving more powerful images with fewer means”. This is true of his materials – much of which would have been recycled or otherwise discarded – as well as the subject matter, with a visual language of bright colours and loosely geometric forms to create the final composition.