Arthur Boyd

(1920-1999)

Narcissus, 1983-84,

Footnotes

Comprising:
(i) Narcissus laments Orpheus
(ii) Echoes Answers - Unbuckling the Ripples from his Oar
(iii) Narcissus's Revolutionary Sayings-There is a Sense in Which...
(iv) The Animal Programme - The Animal Kingdom comes Awake
(v) At the Palace-While you are alive we have lent you the thing you call yourself
(vi) Intermezzo Marsyas
(vii) Narcissus's Revolutionary Sayings-How Lucky you are Narcissus
(viii) Echo's Farewell, a part of goodbye
(ix) Narcissus among the Anthropologists
(x) Echo's Mooncalf
(xi) The Rainbow Maker, I Walked into the Sky Tracing a Rainbow
(xii) Transformation Scene I
(xiii) The Narcissus File
(xiv) Introduction-Rage of Revolution
(xv) The Orchid on the Rock
(xvi) From the Autobiography of Narcissus-My Face Reflected
(xvii) Narcissus as Critic - But I Never Learned how to Play
(xviii) Postlude the Writer is Overwhelmed
(xix) By the Waterfall-A Bird Darts through the Waterfall
(xx) The Painters' Banquet, Little Andrea has Drawn a Sheep
(xxi) The Narcissus Emblems - Eaten Myself off the Water's Top
(xxii) Transformation Scene II, Glazed by Starlight Terror of Dying
(xxiii) The Burial of Narcissus
(xxiv) The Making of a Monster, The Definition of Happiness Begins
(xxv) Narcissus Loses His Love - Hell, Hanging On

PROVENANCE
Christie's, South Kensington, 30 November 1989, lot 4
Private collection
Christies, Australian Art, London, 24 September 2015, lot 57
Private collection, Sydney

LITERATURE
Arthur Boyd and Peter Porter, Narcissus, London, 1984 (full suite illus., another example)

RELATED WORK
Other examples of this suite are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, and the Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales