Lot 44: LINDY LEE (b. 1954)

The Fiftieth Gate 42 panels, each signed and dated 'Lindy Lee 1993' (on the reverse); dated, titled and numbered on gallery label (affixed to the reverse of panel 1) photocopy and acrylic on stonehenge on board 204 x 178.5 cm PROVENANCE Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1993 EXHIBITION Sydney, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 17 November - 8 December 1993, cat. no. 3 NOTES "The ongoing concerns in Lee's work are the relationship between copies and originals in connection to notions of authenticity, selfhood and Zen Buddhism. Earlier work, using photocopies of Old Master reproductions, was a complex mix, exploring concepts of 'belonging' to a Western art tradition; loss and redemption and painting as a practice of silence and embodiment." (Press Release, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 26 April 2001).