Evening with Passing Wildflowers 1981

John Olsen born 1928

Evening with Passing Wildflowers 1981

oil on canvas
135.0 x 150.5 cm

signed and dated lower right: John Olsen '81

signed, dated and inscribed verso: Evening with Passing Wildflowers John Olsen 81

Provenance:

The artist

Bortignon's Kalamunda Gallery of Man, Western Australia (label attached verso)

Christensen Fund Collection, Perth (label attached verso)

Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne

Savill Galleries, Sydney (label attached verso)

Company collection

Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 5 March 2002, lot 47

Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:

John Olsen and Noela Hjorth, Bortignon's Kalamunda Gallery of Man, Festival of Perth, Perth, Feb - March 1982

On loan to the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (label attached verso)

Arthur Boyd and John Olsen: Two Great Australian Painters, Savill Galleries, Sydney, 3 - 31 May 1997, cat.5 (illus. exhibition catalogue)

Reference:

McGregor, K. & Zimmer, J., John Olsen: Journeys into the 'You Beaut Country', Macmillan, Melbourne, 2007, p.314 (illus. p.96)

Estimate: $100000 - 150000

Result Hammer: $110000