NZ & International Fine Art - Part One Wednesday, 9 September 2020 - 6:00 PM start
Paul Dibble - Pacific Dancer
Lot Details
Paul Dibble (b 1943) Pacific Dancer cast bronze sculpture incised with signature and dated 1999 176cm height, 320cm width/depth Provenance with Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Estate, Wairarapa Literature Paul Dibble (David Bateman 2001) p. 126-8. The Large Works of Paul Dibble (David Bateman 2012) p. 58-9. This work has been used in two other large scale sculptures, the first 'Under the Hula Moon' & 'The Performance' (1998). As Paul describes: 'In Under the Hula Moon and The Performance, both completed in 1998, the parts of the sculpture are on separate plinths; they are not connected physically, but by narrative and by the intensity of the dance. In each of them a hula dancer twists around, hips shaking, arms raised above her head; a lithe and bewitching figure. In The Performance she casts her spell on three entranced penguins, who gaze at her with fixed and fascinated attention; whereas in Under the Hula Moon the dancer is more free, performing for herself but with a dancing partner - a beautiful balancing fish garlanded with a lei, gazing enraptured at the moon. You can almost hear the music and the drums.' Paul Dibble (David Bateman 2001) p. 126-8
