NOTHING, 1987

Modern + Contemporary Art
Melbourne
13 June 2018
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JUAN DAVILA

born 1946, Chilean/Australian
NOTHING, 1987

oil on canvas, fourteen panels

241.0 x 251.0 cm

signed, dated and inscribed with title verso: “NOTHING” / JUAN DAVILA 1987

Estimate: 
$30,000 – 50,000 (14)
Sold for $24,400 (inc. BP) in Auction 54 - 13 June 2018, Melbourne
Provenance

Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Holmes à Court Collection, Perth
Company collection, Sydney
Deutscher~Menzies, Sydney, 10 March 2004, lot 12
Gene and Brian Sherman collection, Sydney

Exhibited

The Australian Bicentennial Perspecta, Art Gallery New South Wales, Sydney, 14 October – 29 November 1987; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 5 – 17 April 1988; Wurttembergische Kurstverein, Stuttgart, Germany, March – April 1989
Juan Davila, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 9 September – 12 November 2006; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 30 November 2006 – 4 February 2007

Literature

Brett, G., and Benjamin, R., Juan Davila, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne in association with Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2006, pl. 35, pp. 54, 112 (illus.), 253

Catalogue text

Juan Davila lives and works in Melbourne

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2015 Green Room. Juan Davila, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2013 Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2007 Andy and Oz: Parallel Visions, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA
2007 Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany
2006 Juan Davila Retrospective, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2002 Juan Davila: Works 1988 – 2002, Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
2002 Fieldwork, Australian Art 1968 – 2002, National Gallery of Victoria

SELECTED LITERATURE
Briggs, K., Juan Davila : the moral meaning of wilderness, ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, 2010
Brett, G., and Benjamin, R., Juan Davila, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne in association with Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2006
Juan Davila : works 1988-2002, ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, 2002

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Spain
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

REPRESENTED BY
Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art, Melbourne