Margaret Olley (1923-2011)
Okapa Man Sleeping, New Guinea 1968
Estimate: $1000 - 2000
Sold For:
$2200 hammer
Description
Margaret Olley (1923-2011)
Okapa Man Sleeping, New Guinea 1968
watercolour on paper
12.0 x 18.0 cm
signed and dated lower right: Margaret Olley 68
inscribed lower left: Okapa Man Sleeping NG
Provenance:
Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane (label attached verso)
Mossgreen, The Peter Elliott Collection, Sydney, 30 August 2015,lot 102
Savill Galleries, Sydney (label attached verso)
Exhibited:
Leaves from a New Guinea Sketch Book and Other Paintings by Margaret Olley, Johnstone Gallery, October 1968. One of thirty five pen and wash drawings, cat. 95-125
Reference:
Fry, G., The Peter Elliott Collection of Australian Art, The Beagle Press, Melbourne, 2013, p.167, cat.64
Estimate: $1000 - 2000
Result Hammer: $2200