Box LTFBOX/MYERS Box 2
Contains 24 Results:
Montelepre, 1973-1974
Digital
Sleep, 1974
Digital
Shows a portrait of a sleeping man with red hair with gold leaf painted above his head and a circular drawing of a bird with an egg pasted into the drawing.
Described by Vali Myers in 'Vali Myers: Drawings 1949-79' p. 72-73: 'The face of a sleeping man. Above him is his dream-bird with an egg between her feet'.
Bacchus, 1974
Digital
Shows the face of Bacchus with a curled tongue and beard.
Golden Toad, 1975
Digital
Described by Vali Myers in 'Vali Myers: Drawings 1949-79', London, Open House, 1980, p. 76-77: 'Portrait of a young Italian poet, Gianni Menichetti, who was born in Tuscany in a village built on the ruins of an Etruscan town. Nearby him is his great black goat, Batienne. There is an old belief that a Golden Toad was worshipped long ago by the Etruscan people and lies buried somewhere in this ancient land.
Magdalene, 1975
Digital
Bullroarer, 1977-1979
Digital
Portrait of Rudi, 1978
Digital
Queen and Eel, 1979-1984
Digital
Willy Willy, 1991
Digital
Shows a portrait in profile, with long red hair and a wild horse running in the distance near a scroll of a Willy Willy or tornado.
Described by Gianni Menichetti in 'Notes about Vali's drawings in this book' (YMS 16336 Box 6/3): A self-portrait in profile, dreaming in the Never Never. A wild horse, a bumby, runs in the desert swept by a willy-willy (Australian Aboriginal name for cyclone).