oil on fine linen laid onto board
Signed ‘Daws’ and dated ’60 lower right
60 x 90cm
“Lawrence Daws, through his career to date, has consistently produced works
which refer to the underlying anxieties of modern life: man’s inability
to cope with freedom; the vulnerability of people in their relationships
with others, with themselves, and with the world in which they are trying
to live.
Looking at certain Daws’ paintings, one recalls the great images of nineteenth
century Romantic painting; the dark apparitions of Flaxman and Martin and the
tremblingly beautiful strangeness of Caspar David Friedrich’s landscapes”.
Note: A similar work, Sungazer III 1961, is in the collection of the National
Gallery of Victoria.
REFERENCE
Neville Weston, Lawrence Daws, A.H. & A.W. Reed Pty Ltd, French Forest,
1982, pages 12-13
