Art Auction: Richard Larter ‘Wall Review’ 1972
A Single Lot Online Auction | Concluding 18 April, 7pm RICHARD LARTER Wall Review 1972
RICHARD LARTER (1929-2014)
Wall Review 1972 – ESTIMATE: $120,000 – $160,000
EXHIBITION IN SYDNEY – 12 TODMAN AVENUE, KENSINGTON – 11–18 APRIL, 10AM–5PM
(Closed Sunday 14 April) Menzies is pleased to announce the single lot online auction of Richard Larter’s monumental Wall Review 1972. This almost 50-foot wide canvas is a sprawling milieu of famous faces of politicians, gangsters and war criminals, including Al Capone, Richard Nixon, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels and Billy McMahon, juxtaposed with images of life asserting women, including Liza Minelli, Germaine Greer, and Larter’s wife and muse, Pat Larter. The ideologically and politically charged painting represents Richard Larter and Australian Pop Art at their pinnacle in the 1970s, exposing the hypocrisy of the ruling elite.
As Sasha Grishin describes in his catalogue essay, Wall Review 1972 is ‘a real clash between the powers of good and evil presented as a colourful frieze and a dance of death and life.’ He goes on to label it ‘one of the crowning jewels of his [Larter’s] work from these early years.’
