Lot 5: LINDY LEE (B. 1954)

Three Vital Seals
5 panels, signed, dated and numbered 'Lindy Lee/1997' (on the reverse)
acrylic and photocopy on Stonehenge paper on board
41 x 143 cm (overall)

Sydney, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Lindy Lee - Utmost Causation, 7 - 31 May 1997, cat. no. 8

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Acquired from the above by the present owner on 3 July 1999

"Lee's appropriation of European portraits can be understood as an attempt to locate herself within the western art-historical canon
Her adoption of the copy as a modus operandi was a process of inscribing herself into that tradition... As each individual panel offers a different version of the original, so Lee suggests that identity differs according to time and context. It is a state characterised by moments of flux and uncertainty."
(B Genocchio & M Chui, Lindy Lee Sydney, 2001, p.16)

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