Robert Jacks represents one of Australia’s most esteemed and distinctive abstract artists. From selling out his first solo exhibition in 1966, spending ten-years on a self-described ‘international internship’ in New York and Canada through to a major retrospective at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2014, Jacks’ spent a lifetime fine-tuning his visual language.

When Jacks moved to New York, he met luminaries Sol LeWitt and Donald Judd, taking on their conceptual language of the grid. While Jacks was never a pure minimalist or conceptualist like they were, the grid nevertheless became a staple in his visual lexicon, finding constant reinvention as it does in 'Untitled (Autumnal Grid)'. 

An original gouache on paper, each module of Jacks' composition blushes a tone of autumn. Squint and you may see crispened leaves, flowers or fields burnishing in the change of season. Rather than affecting the aesthetic remoteness associated with minimalism, Jacks’ grid is musical and warm, steps taken over a lifetime. 

Jacks enjoyed an illustrious career, entering all and exhibiting across national collections. For collectors of abstract art or spaces in need of uplifting, Jacks’ ‘Untitled (Autumn Grid)’ work is as collectable as it is elegant, intelligent, and joyful.

Robert JACKS (1943 - 2014)
'Untitled (Autumnal Grid)' 2007
gouache on paper
Image Size: 29 x 38 cm
Dimensions: 61 x 67 x 5 cm
Signed: Signed 'Jacks' and dated in lower right corner.
Comes with Letter of Provenance
 
Condition: Excellent
 
(c) Robert Jacks / Copyright Agency