Published: February 26, 2019
National Art School Gallery highlights the magnetic, untamed energy of Boyd’s famous paintings alongside never-before-seen work
Arthur Boyd’s wife Yvonne sits on a chair in the dappled light of a Suffolk forest. She is naked: her legs are slightly ajar, her breasts sagging, her hair tied back messily. She looks down, away from the viewer, as if deep in thought.
The painting – which Yvonne insisted be kept private, a moment shared by her and her husband only – has never been seen by the public before. It is the surprise jewel in Arthur Boyd: Landscape of the Soul, which opened at Sydney’s National Art School Gallery earlier this year and which will tour regional galleries until 2021.
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