Item - Untitled: Relics

ID UNSW A 1998/0800 (100084)
Artist George SCHWARZ (1935 - )
Title Untitled: Relics
Alternate Titles (landscape and lizard skin)
Category Assemblage
Medium mixed media
Materials wood, lizard skin, colour photograph; perspex dome; original frame
Edition Number
Measurements (cms)  
  Height 78.50
  Width 63.50
  Depth 9.00
  Other Original box frame: 78.5 x 63.5 x 10 cms
Marks/Inscriptions  
  Location lower right and left
  Signed engraved into copper plaque: 1994; EG/Schwarz
Produced  
  When 1994
  Where Australia, NSW, East Sydney
Style Surrealist
Subject Environment
Credit Line Gift of the artist, 1998
Description/Remarks    From the "Relics" series. Work consists of a colour photograph of coastal moor and sea. A treated lizard skin and small rectangular marquetry frame placed within the sky area and beneath an oval convex-shaped plexiglass dome covering whole image; surrounded by copper-gilt mount and gilt-edged cream painted box frame.
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