Bill Henson is one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists. Despite working in photography, his work can appear painterly, trading in a chiaroscuro that recalls the Old Masters of the Renaissance. Henson explores twilight zones – the space between night and day, adolescence and adulthood, and nature and civilisation – drawing out the slipstream between the known and unknowable.

In this exquisite photograph, titled ‘Untitled #15’, Henson captures a nude figure arching into darkness. Captured with the sensitivity he is revered for, it is as collectable as it is visually enigmatic. As Australian art critic Sebastian Smee writes on Henson, “the fact remains that no other living Australian artist has produced as many images so full of tenderness, silence and longing.”

Henson represented Australia at the 1995 Venice Biennale, has been the subject of numerous monographs and survey exhibitions, and is in the collection of national, state, regional and territory galleries. Internationally, he is represented at, among other institutions, Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris, Tate Collection, London, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

With another impression in the permanent collection of the Bendigo Art Gallery, ‘Untitled #15’ is a prize for collectors of important Australian art, contemporary photography and the nude.

Bill HENSON (1955 - )
'Untitled #15' 2010-11
archival inkjet print on paper
Edition of 5
Image Size: 103 x 152 cm
Dimensions: 127 x 180 x 5 cm
Signed: Signed, dated and inscribed lower right
Comes with Letter of Provenance
 
Numerical edition of 5 with 2 APs; inscribed lower left Ah SH169 N142.

Exhibited: Bill Henson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Melbourne, 20 September - 13 October 2012 (another impression). Bill Henson, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 28 October 2012 - 24 February 2013 (another impression).

Another impression of this work is in the permanent collection of the Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, accession number: 2012.20.

Condition: Excellent

(c) The Artist or Assignee