Lot 79 | 9 July 2023

 

 

LOT 79

DAVID BROMLEY

B. United Kingdom, 1960

Morse Code II – Blue and Silver, 2017

Mixed media on canvas

91 x 61 cm

Private Collection, Kuala Lumpur

Signed “Bromley” on lower left

RM 6,000 – 12,000

David Bromley is an Australian artist who emerged as a painter in the mid 1980’s and is currently one of the most successful and innovative painters working in Australia. He began his career in Adelaide as a potter, but is now best known for his painting and sculpture, in particular his portraits, and his paintings of children, birds, butterflies and female nudes. In his art he has managed to combine a distinctive Pop sensibility – a love of found images, photographic sources and mass media references – with an inventive relish for the effects of paint. Bromley infuses his colourful works of birds and butterflies with a painterly style and unexpected metallic backdrops in gold and silver leaf.