Patricia with Fruit and Flowers 1965

Margaret Olley (1923-2011)

Patricia with Fruit and Flowers 1965

oil on board
74.5 x 100.0 cm

signed and dated lower right: Olley 65

Provenance:

Private collection, Queensland

Thence by descent, private collection, Queensland

Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne

Private collection

Savill Galleries, Sydney, 2010 (label attached verso, stock no.210016)

Private collection, Canberra

Exhibited:

Redcliffe Art Contest 9th Annual Exhibition (Winner), Brisbane, 28 August - 14 September 1965, cat.145

Margaret Olley: Recent Paintings, Darlinghurst Galleries, Sydney, 21 September - 16 October 1965, cat.10

Savill Galleries, Sydney, 2010

Margaret Olley: A Generous Life, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 15 June - 13 October 2019

Reference:

'Admiring Her 3rd Art Win,' Courier-Mail, Brisbane, August 1965 (illus.)

France, C., Margaret Olley, Craftsman House, Sydney, 2nd edition, 2002, p.42 (as Patricia with Flowers and Fruit)

Pearce, B., Margaret Olley, The Beagle Press, Sydney, 2012, p.68 (illus.)

Hawker, M., 'The Banana Cutters, a Rare Figurative Work by Margaret Olley,' QAGOMA Blog, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 11 June 2015 [accessed October 2021]: https://blog.qagoma.qld.gov.au/the-banana-cutters-a-rare-figurative-work-by-margaret-olley/

Hawker, M. et al, Margaret Olley: A Generous Life, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2019, p.199 (illus. p.94)



This work has been catalogued by The Olley Project (courtesy of The Margaret Olley Art Trust & Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane)

Estimate: $55000 - 75000

Result Hammer: $130000