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Avatar Meher Baba Travelling Exhibit
I would like to share with you a collection of art works of Avatar Meher Baba which I hope to tour together with photographs, videos, artifacts and a large selection of literature about Meher Baba and his close ones, forming a Travelling Exhibit for display at festivals, galleries, busy indoor spaces and open air venues.
Please have a look and let me know if you would like to participate in some form or other.
Tony Foley anthonyrfoley@gmail.com +61 7 54412428 0477282479
This image of Meher Baba by Robert Rouse was painted on a small tarpaulin canvas, complete with brass eyelets, and served as a backdrop for a play performed at Avatar's Abode. It measures 2.0 m x 1.5 m. It was taken by the current owner from of a trailer destined for the dump during a clean up of the back stage section of the Shed at Avatar's Abode 5-10 years ago. I restored and framed the painting in late 2014.
Subject: Painting on the RIGHT is of Jesus Christ, Meher Baba, and Krishna (L-R).
Artist: John Parry
Materials: Egg Tempura
Comments and Date: One of a series of paintings which John Parry did featuring different Avatars.
Dimensions of Frame (outside): 1275 mm high x 970 mm wide
Artist: John Parry
Materials: Egg Tempura
Comments and Date: One of a series of paintings which John Parry did featuring different Avatars.
Dimensions of Frame (outside): 1275 mm high x 970 mm wide
Subject: Preparatory working drawings
Artist: John Parry
Materials: Mixed medium (pastel, pencil and other) on artist board, framed behind glass by Brian Curry
Date and Comments: Presented to AR & CE Foley from the artist and his wife Maria as a 15th Wedding Anisversary and House Warming present. A working drawing used to develop larger works. John said Eurch Jessawalla, who was close associate and translator of Meher Baba alphabet board and hand gestures, told him that the Baba quote “I have not to teach but to awaken” which was used on his tomb, should include the words “my love in you” at the end.
Dimensions of Frame (outside): Cream Mat Board 410 mm high x 535 mm wide; Yellow Mat Board 545 mm high x 395 mm wide
Subject: Poster of Meher Baba
Artist: Photograph assumed to have been touched up an unknown Indian artist
Materials: Painted photograph
Date and Comments: Purchased by the owner in India at the Darbar at Meherabad or from a Baba Stall during Armathiti
Measurements: 1220 mm high x 1025 mm wide
Measurements: 1220 mm high x 1025 mm wide
Subject: Krishna lifting Govardahn Hill
Artist: original work by unknown Indian artist or studio
Medium: unknown medium on cotton fabric glued to board and then framed
Dates and Comments: Painted in India probably in 1970’s. Purchased by AR Foley in India in 1980.
Dimensions of Frame (outside): 2055 mm high x 1310 mm wide
Subject: Meher Baba depited with a variety of notable personalities and inventions of the 20th Century including: Elvis Presly, General Romel, Ray Charles, tall modern office buildings, and a military jet aircraft
Artist: original painting by Australian artist Karl Gallagher
Medium: oil on cavass, stretched and framed
Dates and Comments: date painted unknown, late 20th century, purchased by AR & CE Foley following a personal request by the artist to make an offer to buy a painting of his which had been hung in Baba’s House at Avatar’s Abode for some years
Dimensions of Frame (outside): 1490 mm high x 1490 mm wide
Subject: Avatar Meher Baba
Artist: original by Australian artist Karl Gallagaher
Medium: oil on canvass
Dates and Comments: painted as a commission by AR & CE Foley in 2003, artist said it was the first painting he had done in over 10 years because of the buying public’s feeling about the prices artist want to charge and feel they deserve for their work
Dimensions of Frame (outside): 1510 mm x 1360 mm wide
Subject: The God-Man
Artist: Sharon Muir – a well known American Baba artist who has lived permanently in India with her partner Harry for a number of decades
Materials: water colour on paper framed behind glass by Brian Curry
Comments and Date: purchased from the artist at her home located opposite Hostel A (Theatre) at Lower Meherabad
Dimensions of Frame (outside): 705 mm high x 550 mm wide
Title and Subject: “Begin the Beguine”
Artist: original painting by Dianna Le Page, well known American Baba artist/sculpter who has lived in Australia for the past 25 years or so with her Australian partner Bill Le Page
Materails: oil paint on canvass, framed by Frame Craft in Brisbane
Dates and Comments: Painted given to AR & CE Foley by the artist as a sign of her appreciation for contributions to the artist to help cover the cost of shipping 18 large paintings depicting Meher Baba’s life commissioned by the AMBPPCT in India for display at the new Meher Pilgrim Retreat.Dimensions of Frame (outside): 910 mm high x 810 mm wide
Title and Subject: “Meher Baba’s Silence”
Artist: original painting by Dianna Le Page, well known American Baba artist/sculpter who has lived in Australia for the past 25 years or so with her Australian partner Bill Le Page
Materails: believed to be mixed technique – egg tempera and oil paint on canvass, framed by Brian Curry
Dates and Comments: purchased by Charmaine Foley as a present for her husband Tony direct from the artist at her home studio in Kiels Mountain in the mid 2000’s. Displayed by the owner at the 2007 Noosa Country Show Arts Festival.
Dimensions of Frame (outside): 890 mm high x 785 mm wide
Dimensions of Frame (outside): 890 mm high x 785 mm wide
Title and Subject: Meher Baba’s face
Artist: original painting by John Parry
Materails: oil paint on canvass, framed by Brian Curry
Dates and Comments: purchased by AR & CE Foley around 2008
Subject: The painting depicts Lord Krishna with a blueish hue holding a flute beside his most devoted disciple Radha (aka Radharani).
Artist: original painting by an unknown Indian artist or studio
Materials: oil on canvas, the canvasses were somewhat damaged and glued to board and restored and framed by artist Vincent Hesse of Buderim who said that he had worked as an art restorer at the Tait Gallery in London.
Dates and Comments: purchased by AR Foley in late1980 from an antique shop in Dacca, capital of Bangladesh (formerly part of Bengal and named East Pakistan following the partition of India in 1947) on his way home to Australia following 18 months travelling around the world. The canvas was one of a set of three which were said to have been ransacked from a Hindu land owner’s residence following partition. They were said to have been torn from their frames and were damaged. Tony recognised the personalities depicted in them as he had spent two months living in Hare Krishna temples in which Caitanya is glorified as a hidden incarnation of Lord Krishna.
Subject: I believe the painting depicts Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu revealing his identity as the Avatar; and hence is shown in a six arm form: the top two arms are green and holding a bow and arrow representing Lord Rama; the middle two are blue and hold a flute representing Lord Krishna; and the bottom two are fair holding a danda and a water pot representing Caitanya himself as a sannyasi in this hidden or minor advent of the Avatar.
Artist: original painting by an unknown Indian artist or studio
Materials: oil on canvas, the canvasses were somewhat damaged and glued to board and restored and framed by artist Vincent Hesse of Buderim who said that he had worked as an art restorer at the Tait Gallery in London.
Dates and Comments: purchased by AR Foley in late1980 from an antique shop in Dacca, capital of Bangladesh (formerly part of Bengal and named East Pakistan following the partition of India in 1947) on his way home to Australia following 18 months travelling around the world. The canvas was one of a set of three which were said to have been ransacked from a Hindu land owner’s residence following partition. They were said to have been torn from their frames and were damaged. Tony recognised the personalities depicted in them as he had spent two months living in Hare Krishna temples in which Caitanya is glorified as a hidden incarnation of Lord Krishna.
Dimensions of Frame (outside):
Subject: Mehera Irani
Artist: original painting by Dianna
Le Page, well known American Baba artist/sculpter who has lived in Australia
for the past 25 years or so with her Australian partner Bill Le Page
Materails: believed to be
mixed technique – egg tempera and oil paint on canvass, framed by Brian Curry
Dates and Comments: purchased
by AR & CE Foley direct from the artist at her home studio in Kiels
Mountain in the mid 2000’s.
Dimensions of Frame
(outside):
Subject: I believe the painting depicts Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu revealing his identity as Lord Krishna. He is shown having a light skin colour but in the form of Krishna folding a flute.
Artist: original painting by an unknown Indian artist or studio
Materials: oil on canvas, the canvasses were somewhat damaged and glued to board and restored and framed by artist Vincent Hesse of Buderim who said that he had worked as an art restorer at the Tait Gallery in London.
Dates and Comments: purchased by AR Foley in late1980 from an antique shop in Dacca, capital of Bangladesh (formerly part of Bengal and named East Pakistan following the partition of India in 1947) on his way home to Australia following 18 months travelling around the world. The canvas was one of a set of three which were said to have been ransacked from a Hindu land owner’s residence following partition. They were said to have been torn from their frames and were damaged. Tony recognised the personalities depicted in them as he had spent two months living in Hare Krishna temples in which Caitanya is glorified as a hidden incarnation of Lord Krishna.
Subject: Meher Baba's bedroom in Meherazad
Artist:
Comment and Date;
Measurements: 545 mm high x 745 mm wide
Subject: Baba’s Room through an open door, Avatar’s Abode, Meher Rd, Kiels Mountain, Qld
Artist: copy of an original by Jim Frisino
Materials: photographic reproduction of a pencil drawing
Dates and Comments: approximately early to mid 2000’s. Possibly given by the artist. Framed by Brian Curry.
Dimensions of Frame (outside): 520 mm high x 345 mm wide
Subject: Meher Baba – from a photo taken in 1956 in Washington DC
Artist: Claire Maitra
Materials:
Comments and Date: painted in 2000, purchased by AR & CE Foley around 2005 when she was living with Strider. Claire said she was never sure if it was finished.
Dimensions of Frame (outside): 810 mm high x 555 mm wide
Subject: Avatar Meher Baba
Artist: John Bruford
Comment: Bronze casting of a plaster sculpture
Dimensions: 365 mm high x 250 mm wide
Subject: Kitty Davy – close early English female disciple of Meher Baba
Artist: print of original painting by American (Myrtle Beach, SC) artist Laurie Blume
Medium: mixed medium, appears to be paint and pastel, framed behind glass
Dates and Comments: purchased by AR &CE Foley direct from artist in 2006, purchased 3 prints instead of the original intended purchase on an original painting of Meher Baba with the women mandali which was viewed as a photo only.
Dimensions of Frame (outside): 790 mm high x 630 mm wide
Subject: Mahatma Gandhi
Artist: print of painting by Buderim artist Vincent Hesse
Medium: print of oil on canvass, behind glass,
Dates and Comments: purchased by AR & CE Foley from Brian Curry’s Framing Studio in Yandina in mid 2000’s. Framed by artist’s daughter while she was employed as a picture framer by Brian Curry. Artist worked at the Tait Gallery in London and restored and framed 3 damaged old Indian canvasses for Tony in early 1980’s and was a supporter of Charmaine during her terms as Shire Councillor.
Dimensions of Frame (outside):
Subject: Hafiz’s tomb shrine located in Shiraz, Iran
Artist: print of original painting by American (Myrtle Beach, SC) artist Laurie Blume
Medium: mixed medium, appears to be paint and pastel, framed behind glass
Dates and Comments: purchased by AR &CE Foley direct from artist in 2006, purchased 3 prints instead of the intended purchase on an original, artist became a celebrated forgien artist depicting Iranian culture.
Dimensions of Frame (outside): 640 mm high x 775 mm wide
Subject: Roses and Birds – elements used in a lot of Sufi spiritual poetry
Artist: print of original painting by American (Myrtle Beach, SC) artist Laurie Blume
Medium: mixed medium, appears to be paint and pastel, framed behind glass
Dates and Comments: purchased by AR &CE Foley direct from artist in 2006, purchased 3 prints instead of the intended purchase on an original, artist became a celebrated forgien artist depicting Iranian culture.
Dimensions of Frame (outside): 635 mm high x 775 mm wide
Subject: Mehera Irani
Artist: original painted in USA by American artist Phillis Ott
Medium: Oil on canvass, stretched and framed
Dates and Comments: painted in 1990’s-2000’s on the back of a painting purchased by the artist when visiting Australia in 1988, purchased by AR &CE Foley direct from artist in 2006
Dimensions of Frame (outside):
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Description of paintings to be hung at locations
corresponding to numbers shown on the attached floor plan of the residence
located at 12 Dalzell Ct, Burnside Q 4560
1.
Subject: Krishna lifting
Govardahn Hill
Artist: original work by unknown
Indian artist or studio
Medium: unknown medium on cotton
fabric glued to board and then framed
Dates and Comments: Painted
in India probably in 1970’s. Purchased
by AR Foley in India in 1980.
Dimensions of Frame (outside):
2.
Subject: Mehera Irani
Artist: original painted in
USA by American artist Phillis Ott
Medium: Oil on canvass,
stretched and framed
Dates and Comments: painted
in 1990’s-2000’s on the back of a painting purchased by the artist when
visiting Australia in 1988, purchased by AR &CE Foley direct from artist in
2006
Dimensions of Frame
(outside):
3.
Subject: Avatar Meher Baba
Artist: original by Australian
artist Karl Gallagaher
Medium: oil on canvass
Dates and Comments: painted
as a commission by AR & CE Foley in 2003, artist said it was the first
painting he had done in over 10 years because of the buying public’s feeling
about the prices artist want to charge and feel they deserve for their work
Dimensions of Frame
(outside):
4.
Subject: Mahatma Gandhi
Artist: print of painting by Buderim
artist Vincent Hesse
Medium: print of oil on
canvass, behind glass,
Dates and Comments: purchased by AR & CE Foley from Brian
Curry’s Framing Studio in Yandina in mid 2000’s. Framed by artist’s daughter while she was
employed as a picture framer by Brian Curry.
Artist worked at the Tait Gallery in London and restored and framed 3
damaged old Indian canvasses for Tony in early 1980’s and was a supporter of
Charmaine during her terms as Shire Councillor.
Dimensions of Frame
(outside):
5.
Subject: Kitty Davy – close early
English female disciple of Meher Baba
Artist: print of original
painting by American (Myrtle Beach, SC) artist Laurie Blume
Medium: mixed medium, appears
to be paint and pastel, framed behind glass
Dates and Comments: purchased
by AR &CE Foley direct from artist in 2006, purchased 3 prints instead of
the original intended purchase on an original painting of Meher Baba with the
women mandali which was viewed as a photo only.
Dimensions of Frame
(outside):
6.
Subject: Hafiz’s tomb shrine located in Shiraz, Iran
Artist: print of original
painting by American (Myrtle Beach, SC) artist Laurie Blume
Medium: mixed medium, appears
to be paint and pastel, framed behind glass
Dates and Comments: purchased
by AR &CE Foley direct from artist in 2006, purchased 3 prints instead of
the intended purchase on an original, artist became a celebrated forgien artist
depicting Iranian culture.
Dimensions of Frame
(outside):
7.
Subject: Roses and Birds – elements used in a lot of
Sufi spiritual poetry
Artist: print of original
painting by American (Myrtle Beach, SC) artist Laurie Blume
Medium: mixed medium, appears
to be paint and pastel, framed behind glass
Dates and Comments: purchased
by AR &CE Foley direct from artist in 2006, purchased 3 prints instead of
the intended purchase on an original, artist became a celebrated forgien artist
depicting Iranian culture.
Dimensions of Frame
(outside):
8.
Subject: Central Australian landscape of trees and
hills
Artist: original painting by
Australian indigenous artist Gillian Namatjira
Medium: orginal water colour,
framed behind glass
Dates and Comments: purchased
by AR & CE Foley in late 1980’s or early 1990’s at the opening night of a
exhibition held at Alexandra Headlands.
One of the many notable painters in the Hieldberg style made famous by
her uncle Albert Namatjira
Dimensions of Frame
(outside):
9.
Subject: Rainforest waterfall in the Gold Coast
hinterland.
Artist: original painting by
Gold Coast artist John Milligan
Medium: pastel, framed behind
glass
Dates and Comments: painted
in 1987 and purchased by AR & CE Foley in the early 1990’s at the opening
night of a exhibition by Bruce Watling Gold Coast Fine Arts held at the
Sheraton in Hastings Street, Noosa Heads
Dimensions of Frame
(outside):
10.
Subject: Meher Baba depited with a variety of notable
personalities and inventions of the 20th Century including: Elvis
Presly, General Romel, Ray Charles, tall modern office buildings, and a
military jet aircraft
Artist: original painting by
Australian artist Karl Gallagher
Medium: oil on cavass,
stretched and framed
Dates and Comments: date painted unknown, late 20th
century, purchased by AR & CE Foley following a personal request by the
artist to make an offer to buy a painting of his which had been hung in Baba’s
House at Avatar’s Abode for some years
Dimensions of Frame
(outside):
11.
Subject: Meher Baba
Artist: original painting by
American (Myrtle Beach, SC) artist Woden (psudonam)
Medium: oil on canvass,
stretched and unframed
Dates and Comments: painted
in late 1900’s early 2000’s and acquired Cheryl Garnant who gave the work to
Tony during a visit to Myrtle Beach in the mid 2000’s in appreciation for help
around her house.
Dimensions of Frame
(outside):
12.
Subject: “Maleny Gully” - pasture
and timbered hills around Maleny, SE Qld
Artist: original painting by Sunshine Coast artist and
Baba lover Miles Rowan
Materials: oil on masonite,
framed by Brian Currie
Dates and Comments: painted
2001, purchased by AR & CE Foley following a personal showing by the artist
Dimensions of Frame
(outside):
13.
Subject: Rainbow Lorikeets
Artist: print, illegible
signature, possibly Bentford
Materials: print of painting,
possibly acrylic on canvass
Dates and Comments: purchased by AR Foley from the Noosa Tender
Shed around 2010 to furnish a rented unit in Katherina St, Noosa Junction
Dimensions of Frame
(outside):
14.
Subject: Mount Colum
Artist: original painting by Pennie Steel, a well
know local artist, art teacher and art facilitator
Materials: charcoal on paper
Dates and Comments: painted in late 1980’s. Given my artist and her partner who framed
the work to AR and CE Foley as a wedding present on 21 Dec 1990
Dimensions of Frame
(outside):
15.
Subject: Baba’s Room through
an open door, Avatar’s Abode, Meher Rd, Kiels Mountain, Qld
Artist: copy of an original
by Jim Frisino
Materials: photographic
reproduction of a pencil drawing
Dates and Comments: approximately early to mid 2000’s. Possibly given by the artist. Framed by Brian Curry.
Dimensions of Frame
(outside):
16.
Subject: Two snakes and four starfish
Artist: print of a painting
by Wanjidari
Materials: print on paper
Dates and Comments: purchased
by AR Foley during a business trip to Cairns in the late 1990’s or early
2000’s, framed in a pre-used or non-custom frame
Dimensions of Frame
(outside):
17.
Subject: interpretation of landscape
and other features significant to traditional owners of the “country” around
the NSW town of Gunnadah
Artist: original painting by
an indigenous resident of Gunnadah
Materials: oil on board
Dates and Comments: Purchased by AR & CE Foley on a
Reconciliation Council business visit to Gunnedah in the late 1990’s. The artist was a community representative who
spoke to us about reconciliation and showed us cultural heritage initiatives in
Gunnadah. He took us to a vantage point
near town from which we could view some of the landscape features depicted in
his painting. He said this was his first
painting he had done.
Dimensions of Frame (outside):
18.
Subject: Green Goanna
Artist: original painting by
Daniel Kinchela
Materials: oil on canvass,
stretched and framed by Frame Craft
Dates and Comments: Purchased by AR & CE Foley at the opening
night of an exhibition of works by mostly young indigenous artists in Ipswich,
SE Qld. The artist is the son a Sharon
Parsons who was the leader of the active Ipswich Australians for Reconciliation
Group, for which CE and AR Foley were Coordinators for Queensland during the
life of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation 1991-2000
Dimensions of Frame
(outside):
19.
Subject: Bush Tucker Dreaming:
women gathering bush tucker and digging for honey ants and witchy grubs
Artist: original painting by
Karina Napangardi, Penhall, Alice Springs, Central Australia
Materials: oil on canvass,
stretched and framed by Brian Curry using locally sourced and milled Red Cedar
Dates and Comments: canvass purchased by CE Foley in the mid
2000’s direct from artist with the involvement of Brisbane relative Margaret McLeod,
a traditional owner who relied on Charmaine to provide her group with Cultural
Heritage employment and related services
Dimensions of Frame
(outside):
20.
Subject: “Heartland” - rugged Central Australian
landscape
Artist: numbered and signed
print 1/12, original painting by Gold Coast artist John Milligan
Medium: print of mixed medium
painting, framed behind glass
Dates and Comments: painted
in 1990 and purchased by AR & CE Foley in the early 1990’s at the opening
night of an exhibition by Bruce Watling Gold Coast Fine Arts held at the
Sheraton in Hastings Street, Noosa Heads
Dimensions of Frame
(outside):
21.
Subject: “New Life in Baba”
Artist: John Parry
Materials: Mixed medium
(pastel, pencil and other) on artist board, framed behind glass by Brian Curry
Date and Comments: Presented
to AR & CE Foley from the artist and his wife Maria as a 15th
Wedding Anisversary and House Warming present.
A working drawing used to develop larger works.
Dimensions of Frame
(outside):
22.
Subject: “I have not to teach
but to awaken my love in you”
Artist: John Parry
Materials: Mixed medium
(pastel, pencil and other) on artist board, framed behind glass by Brian Curry
Date and Comments: Presented
to AR & CE Foley from the artist and his wife Maria as a 15th
Wedding Anisversary and House Warming present.
A working drawing used to develop larger works. John said Eurch Jessawalla, who was close
associate and translator of Meher Baba alphabet board and hand gestures, told
him that the Baba quote “I have not to teach but to awaken” which was used on
his tomb, should include the words “my love in you”
Dimensions of Frame
(outside):
23.
Subject: Couple in swimmers lying side by side
Artist: unknown
Materials:
Comments and Date: purchased
around 1990 from a contemporary Byron Bay gift shop by AR & CE Foley on
their first weekend away as a couple
Dimensions of Frame
(outside):
24.
Subject: The God-Man
Artist: Sharon Muir – a well
known American Baba artist who has lived permanently in India with her partner
Harry for a number of decades
Materials: water colour on
paper framed behind glass by Brian Curry
Comments and Date: purchased
from the artist at her home located opposite Hostel A (Theatre) at Lower
Meherabad
Dimensions of Frame
(outside):
25.
Subject: Meher Baba – from a
photo taken in 1956 in Washington DC
Artist: Claire Maitra
Materials:
Comments and Date: painted in
2000, purchased by AR & CE Foley around 2005 when she was living with
Strider. Claire said she was never sure
if it was finished.
Dimensions of Frame
(outside):
26.
Subject: Mehera Irani
Artist: original painting by Dianna
Le Page, well known American Baba artist/sculpter who has lived in Australia
for the past 25 years or so with her Australian partner Bill Le Page
Materails: believed to be
mixed technique – egg tempera and oil paint on canvass, framed by Brian Curry
Dates and Comments: purchased
by AR & CE Foley direct from the artist at her home studio in Kiels
Mountain in the mid 2000’s.
Dimensions of Frame
(outside):
27.
Subject: I believe the
painting depicts Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu revealing his identity as the Avatar;
and hence is shown in a six arm form: the top two arms are green and holding a
bow and arrow representing Lord Rama; the middle two are blue and hold a flute
representing Lord Krishna; and the bottom two are fair holding a danda and a water
pot representing Caitanya himself as a sannyasi in this hidden or minor advent
of the Avatar.
Artist: original painting by
an unknown Indian artist or studio
Materials: oil on canvas, the
canvasses were somewhat damaged and glued to board and restored and framed by
artist Vincent Hesse of Buderim who said that he had worked as an art restorer
at the Tait Gallery in London.
Dates and Comments: purchased
by AR Foley in late1980 from an antique shop in Dacca, capital of Bangladesh
(formerly part of Bengal and named East Pakistan following the partition of
India in 1947) on his way home to Australia following 18 months travelling
around the world. The canvas was one of
a set of three which were said to have been ransacked from a Hindu land owner’s
residence following partition. They were
said to have been torn from their frames and were damaged. Tony recognised the personalities depicted in
them as he had spent two months living in Hare Krishna temples in which
Caitanya is glorified as a hidden incarnation of Lord Krishna.
Dimensions of Frame
(outside):
28.
Subject: The painting depicts
Lord Krishna with a blueish hue holding a flute beside his most devoted disciple
Radha (aka Radharani).
Artist: original painting by
an unknown Indian artist or studio
Materials: oil on canvas, the
canvasses were somewhat damaged and glued to board and restored and framed by
artist Vincent Hesse of Buderim who said that he had worked as an art restorer
at the Tait Gallery in London.
Dates and Comments: purchased
by AR Foley in late1980 from an antique shop in Dacca, capital of Bangladesh
(formerly part of Bengal and named East Pakistan following the partition of
India in 1947) on his way home to Australia following 18 months travelling
around the world. The canvas was one of
a set of three which were said to have been ransacked from a Hindu land owner’s
residence following partition. They were
said to have been torn from their frames and were damaged. Tony recognised the personalities depicted in
them as he had spent two months living in Hare Krishna temples in which
Caitanya is glorified as a hidden incarnation of Lord Krishna.
29.
Subject: I believe the
painting depicts Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu revealing his identity as Lord
Krishna. He is shown having a light skin
colour but in the form of Krishna folding a flute.
Artist: original painting by
an unknown Indian artist or studio
Materials: oil on canvas, the
canvasses were somewhat damaged and glued to board and restored and framed by
artist Vincent Hesse of Buderim who said that he had worked as an art restorer
at the Tait Gallery in London.
Dates and Comments: purchased
by AR Foley in late1980 from an antique shop in Dacca, capital of Bangladesh
(formerly part of Bengal and named East Pakistan following the partition of
India in 1947) on his way home to Australia following 18 months travelling
around the world. The canvas was one of
a set of three which were said to have been ransacked from a Hindu land owner’s
residence following partition. They were
said to have been torn from their frames and were damaged. Tony recognised the personalities depicted in
them as he had spent two months living in Hare Krishna temples in which
Caitanya is glorified as a hidden incarnation of Lord Krishna.
30.
Title and Subject: “Meher Baba’s Silence”
Artist: original painting by
Dianna Le Page, well known American Baba artist/sculpter who has lived in
Australia for the past 25 years or so with her Australian partner Bill Le Page
Materails: believed to be
mixed technique – egg tempera and oil paint on canvass, framed by Brian Curry
Dates and Comments: purchased
by Charmaine Foley as a present for her husband Tony direct from the artist at
her home studio in Kiels Mountain in the mid 2000’s. Displayed by the owner at the 2007 Noosa
Country Show Arts Festival.
31.
Title and Subject: “Begin the Beguine”
Artist: original painting by
Dianna Le Page, well known American Baba artist/sculpter who has lived in
Australia for the past 25 years or so with her Australian partner Bill Le Page
Materails: oil paint on
canvass, framed by Frame Craft in Brisbane
Dates and Comments: Painted
given to AR & CE Foley by the artist as a sign of her appreciation for
contributions to the artist to help cover the cost of shipping 18 large
paintings depicting Meher Baba’s life commissioned by the AMBPPCT in India for
display at the new Meher Pilgrim Retreat.
32.
Title and Subject: Meher Baba’s face
Artist: original painting by John
Parry
Materails: oil paint on
canvass, framed by Brian Curry
Dates and Comments: purchased
by AR & CE Foley around 2008
33.
Subject: Great Barrier Reef
Garden
Artist: printed image of an
original painting by Ken Done
Materials: printed on light cotton fabric
Dates and Comments: purchased
from a Ken Done store by AR Foley. Sleeves
sewn to the top and bottom of the fabric print so rods can be inserted to hang
and display the large image.
34.
Subject/Title: “Place of
Brushing Teeth” abstract images of bathroom sink objects
Artist: original painting by
Natasha Wilson
Materials: mixed media and
collage on craftwood
Dates and Comments: Painted
in 1999 as part of the artist’s senior high school art assessment. Purchased by AR Foley while undertaking
consultancy work for North West Advocacy in Mt Isa.
35-40.
Subject: various scenes from Meher Baba’s birth place
of Poona and his tomb shrine near Ahmednagar in Maharashtra, India
Artist: Original paintings by
English artist, craftsman, property developer and Baba Lover Peter Caswell
Materials: oil on board and canvass
Dates adn Comments: Purchased direct from the artist by Charmaine
Foley during a pilgrimage to Meherabad. Other
canvass oil paintings given to Charmaine Foley by the artist and sent by post
from England.
41.
Subject: depiction of a 1954
photograph taken in the USA of Meher Baba responding with a hand gesture to
indicate his pleasure with something
Artist: original pencil drawing
by Claire Matiera
Materials: pencil on paper
Dates and Comments: Purchased direct from the artist by AR &
CE Foley in the early 1990’s and framed in Roma, SW Qld
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