Study for Portrait of Professor L. F. Giblin 1945

William Dobell (1899-1970)

Study for Portrait of Professor L. F. Giblin 1945

oil on board
24.5 x 19.5 cm
signed and dated upper left: Bill Dobell/ 45

Provenance:
Artlovers Gallery, Sydney (label attached verso)

Collection of Dr & Mrs D. R. Sheumack, Sydney

Thence by descent, private collection

Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 23 November 2009, lot 4

Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited:
Paintings and Drawings by William Dobell, John Martin & Co. Ltd., Adelaide Festival of Arts, Adelaide, March 1960, cat.32 (label attached verso)

William Dobell: Paintings from 1926 to 1964, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 July - 30 August 1964, cat.107 (label attached verso)

William Dobell Exhibition, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 13 - 23 November 1964, cat.8 (label attached verso)

The D. R. Sheumack Collection of Australian Paintings, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 17 May - 12 June 1983, cat.25

Reference:
Christie, R. & Miller, J., The D. R. Sheumack Collection: Eighty Years of Australian Painting, Sotheby’s Australia, Sydney, 1988 (illus. pl.95)

Related Works:
Professor L. F. Giblin 1945, oil on board, 88.5 x 81.5 cm, University of Melbourne Art Collection, Melbourne, commissioned by the Commerce Graduates Association, 1945; exhibited in Archibald Prize (Finalist), National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1945

Estimate: $25000 - 35000

Result Hammer: $44000