Robert Klippel

Untitled LS81
pencil and watercolour on paper
signed with initials and dated ’RK. 5/77’ (lower right) and inscribed ‘To Les and Betty Wild/With thanks and appreciation/for all your wonderful assistance,/With very best wishes/from/Bob’ and further with handwritten details on Watters Gallery label (all on the reverse)
23 x 30.5 cm (image); 38.8 x 45 cm (frame)

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Provenance:

A gift from the artist to Les & Betty Wild in August 1978 
Watters Gallery, Sydney (97-35-016) 
Private collection, Sydney

Literature:

James Gleeson, Robert Klippel, Bay Books, Sydney, 1983, illus. p.435

"Klippel's inclination to cover surfaces with an even density of coloured shapes closely related in scale and tone, as in this work, could lead to a kind of cancellation. So much similarity should normally produce a sensation of monotony, but Klippel's paradoxical intention is to use this evenness to generate energy. Because there is no apparent focal point, the eye can move about the surface at will, and this, in itself, induces an active element composed of an incalculable number of small movements. The eye's movement is transferred back to the image so that the sensation of motion appears to have been generated from the surface of the image itself" (James Gleeson, Robert Klippel, Bay Books, Sydney, 1983, p. 435)