Arthur Murch 'Girl in Cave' the field revisited Night Personages represents a compelling

Night Personages represents a compelling acquisition for collectors of important works on paper and modern Australian modernism

they became mainstays in his visual vocabulary

stripping away all non-essential detail to focus purely on the primal forces at play

and a monograph ‘John Rigby: Art and Life’

elegant work was published by Australian Print Workshop’s Senior Printer

Arthur Murch 'Girl in Cave' the field revisited Night Personages represents a compellingFrom his earliest days under Antonio Dattilo Rubbos Impressionist tutelage and Rayner Hoffs sculptural rigour, Arthur Murch (19021989) fused classical form with modern sensibility. Girl in Cave finds its roots in Murchs Paris and Italian sojournswhere Renaissance masters taught him the poetry of drapery and chiaroscuroand in his post 1927 collaboration with George Lambert, whose tight draughtsmanship honed Murchs figure work. In this mysterious