Comet, 1987, Peter Booth
Pastel on paper, 173cm x 342cm
Provenance: Collection of the artist. CDS Gallery, New York. Leonard Joel, Melbourne.
Exhibited: CDS Gallery, New York 1998. CDS Gallery, New York 2002. CDS Gallery, New York 2004.
Born in Sheffield, but raised in Melbourne, Peter Booth gained widespread recognition in the late 1960s, for his late scale architectural clock paintings. His work progressed in the 1970s to include dream inspiration of vivid abstractions of warped space and monstrous figures. Booth’s work continued to depict mutants, solitary men in a crowd, snow flakes drifting and apocalyptic landscapes. Booth is represented in all major Australian galleries; the Ian Potter Centre held an exhibition of 230 of his paintings in 2003 (1).