Boy Crying in a Carlton Street 1944

JOHN PERCEVAL (1923-2000)

Boy Crying in a Carlton Street 1944

oil on composition board
70.0 x 38.5 cm

signed and dated lower left: Perceval '44

Provenance:

The artist

Acquired from the artist, Mr Matthew Foster, Melbourne

Joel Fine Art, Melbourne, 30 October 2007, lot 39

Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:

The Formative Years 1940-45, Museum of Modern Art of Australia, Melbourne, 17 October - 14 November 1961, cat.2

Rebels and Precursors: Aspects of Painting in Melbourne 1937-1947, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, August - September 1962; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, September - October 1962, cat.89

John Perceval, Australian National University, Canberra, 14 - 24 July 1966, cat.6

John Perceval: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne, July - August 1984, cat.21

Angry Penguins and Realist Paintings in Melbourne in the 1940s, Australian National Gallery, Canberra; Hayward Gallery, London, 19 May - 14 August 1988; Tate Gallery, Liverpool, 4 October - 27 November 1988, cat.129, (labels attached verso)

John Perceval: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 30 April - 12 July 1992, cat.29 (label attached verso)

Reference:

Plant, M., John Perceval, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1971, pp.72-73 (as Child Crying in a Carlton Street 1943)

Ryan, M. (ed.), Angry Penguins and Realist Painting in Melbourne in the 1940s, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1988, p.134 (illus.)

Allen, T., John Perceval, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1992, pp.27, 148 (dated 1943)

Reid, B., Of Light and Dark: The Art of John Perceval, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1992, p.14

Estimate: $30000 - 40000

Result Hammer: $33000