Brent Harris (b.1956)

colour woodcut on Japanese paper, edition 3 of 20, each numbered, titled, signed and dated below image ‘…/20, Grotesquerie, BH, ’02’ (7)

Elegant Subversion.
I’m drawn to graphic, imaginative and often surreal artwork from original, challenging artists. I found all this and more in Brent Harris’s 2002 series GROTESQUERIES. Contorted figures, bodily fluids, psychological depth and family secrets exposed in elegant detail. Brent’s superb suite of seven intimate Japanese styled woodcut prints are as subversive as they are beautiful.
– Jim Sharman (2023)

Measurements:

29.9 x 14.7 cm blockmark; 37.0 x 21.4 cm sheet

Provenance:

Kaliman Gallery, Sydney, Collection of Jim Sharman, Sydney

Exhibited:

Related work: Grotesquerie series, No. 1,2,3,7,9,10,14, 2002, colour woodcut on Japanese paper edition 1/20, Art Gallery of New South Wales collection, gift of John McBride 2004, Christchurch Art Gallery, The British Museum, London, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Reference:

Literature: Gilliam Mears, Brent Harris: Grotesqueries: A Series of Seventeen Paintings and Ten Woodcuts, Kalimam Gallery, Sydney, 2002

• EStimate $10,000 - $15,000
• sold $9,818 Incl BP