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.

‘Split Composition’, an original screenprint on paper, is a breath of fresh air. Against a brilliant blue, Jacks composes a guitar – a reference to his love for jazz and the guitar in modernist art history, strung by Pablo Picasso's paintbrush. Jacks rendition too recalls cubism, the guitar's form broken into a syntax that still reads as an instrument. In its playful use of line, colour and shape, 'Split Composition' is music for the eye.

This work is for admirers of the artist, abstract art or spaces in need of an uplift. Represented in all state collections as well as several monographs, Jacks’ work is collectable, intelligent, and joyous.

Robert JACKS (1943 - 2014)
'Split Composition' 2001
screenprint on paper
Edition of 10
Image Size: 67 x 50 cm
Dimensions: 76 x 56 cm
Signed: Numbered, signed 'Jacks' and dated in margin
Comes with Letter of Provenance
Printed by master printmaker Larry Rawlings, embossed with printers stamp.
 
Condition: Excellent
 
(c) Robert Jacks / Copyright Agency