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ARTHUR BOYD (1920-1999)

Moby Dick Hill, near Frankston, Victoria 1949

Estimate: $800000 - 1000000

Sold For:
$740000 hammer

 

ARTHUR BOYD (1920-1999)

Moby Dick Hill, near Frankston, Victoria 1949

tempera and oil on composition board
81.5 x 122.0 cm
signed lower right: Arthur Boyd
inscribed verso: Arthur Boyd/ "Moby Dick Hill"

Provenance:
Neil Clerehan, Melbourne

Violet Dulieu, Melbourne

Jack Kohane, Melbourne

Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 20 August 1991, lot 139

Savill Galleries, Sydney (label attached verso)

Private collection, Melbourne

Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 10 December 2008, lot 31

Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:
Third Dunlop Australian Art Contest, Stanley Coe Gallery, Melbourne, June 1950, cat.144 (winner equal third award)

Dunlop Australian Art Collection, Tye's Art Gallery, Melbourne, 14 - 28 May 1951

The Sydney Group, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, 2 - 14 July 1951, cat.5

Arthur Boyd, works dating from 1937 to 1989, Savill Galleries, Sydney, 29 September - 30 October 1993, cat.4 (illus. exhibition catalogue, cat.4 & cover)

Arthur Boyd Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 December 1993 - 6 March 1994; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 20 March - 23 May 1994, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 9 June - 21 August 1994, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 22 September - 20 November 1994, cat.59 (label attached verso)

Reference:
Philipp, F., Arthur Boyd, Thames and Hudson, London, 1967, pp.60, 246, cat.5.24
Pearce, B., Arthur Boyd Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1993, p.76, cat.59 (illus.)
Bungey, D., Arthur Boyd: A Life, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2007, p.247

Estimate: $800000 - 1000000

Result Hammer: $740000

Location

VIEWING MELBOURNE
10-13 June 11am-6pm
Menzies Gallery
1 Darling Street
SOUTH YARRA VIC 3141

VIEWING SYDNEY
17-23 June 11am-6pm, 1pm-6pm Sunday
Menzies Gallery
12 Todman Avenue
KENSINGTON NSW 2033

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