The Family (also known as Breakfast with Neil Douglas) 1959

JOHN PERCEVAL (1923-2000)

The Family (also known as Breakfast with Neil Douglas) 1959

oil on composition board
61.0 x 46.5 cm
signed upper left: Perceval
signed with initials, dated and inscribed on frame verso: Family/ JP Oct 70/ for duration only of S.Y.G. exhibition/ 23rd October '70

Provenance:
South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne (label attached verso)
Private collection, Melbourne
Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 5 December 2007, lot 20
Private collection, Melbourne
Private collection, Queensland

Exhibited:
Recent Works by John Perceval, South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne, October 1970 (as "The Family")

Reference:
Plant, M., John Perceval, Lansdowne Australian Art Library, Melbourne, 1971, pp.80-83, (illus. p.82)
Allen, T., John Perceval, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1992, p.160

Related Works:
The Gorge 1959, oil on canvas, 90.1 x 114.3 cm, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, illus. in: Plant, M., John Perceval, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1971, p.79
Dairy Farm 1960, oil on canvas, 91.4 x 114.3 cm, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, illus.in: Plant, M., op cit.p.69

Estimate: $55000 - 75000