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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 1, 2022 | Deutscher and Hackett | Melbourne | Important Australian + International Fine Art | 18 | $****** - ****** | NIGHT LIFE |
paintings
66 x 92 cm (25.98 x 36.22 in)
synthetic polymer paint and gouache on cardboard on composition board
bears inscription verso: NIGHT LIFE / “NIGHT LIFE” / BY IAN FAIRWEATHER
bears inscription verso: NIGHT LIFE / “NIGHT LIFE” / BY IAN FAIRWEATHER
Treania Smith (Mrs Clive Bennett), Sydney, 1963
Jack and Beryl Kohane, Melbourne
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Norman Rosenblatt, Melbourne, acquired from the above
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
The Reg Grundy AC OBE and Joy Chambers-Grundy Collection, acquired from the above in 1989 (stamped and label attached verso)
Ian Fairweather, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 15 - 27 August 1962, cat. 7
VII Bienal de São Paulo, Parque Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil, 28 September - 22 December 1963, cat. 10 (label attached verso, as ‘Vida Nocturna")
Fairweather: A Retrospective Exhibition, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 3 June - 4 July 1965; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 July - 22 August 1965; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 9 September - 10 October 1965; National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 26 October - 21 November 1965; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 9 December 1965 - 16 January 1966; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 10 February - 13 March 1966, cat. 56 (label attached verso)
Hetherington, J., ‘Ian Fairweather: Gentle Nomad who Lives a Lonely Life", The Age, Melbourne, 9 June 1962, p. 17 (illus.)
Melbourne Herald, Melbourne, 16 August 1962, p. 6
‘Gentle artist"s choice of nomad lonely life", Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 16 August 1962, p. 2
‘The Hermit Painter Hits the Jackpot", Sun-Herald, Sydney, 19 August 1962, p. 43
Thomas, D., "Australia", VII Bienal de São Paulo, Parque Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil, 1963, pl. 4, pp. 53 - 55
‘Ian Fairweather"s Bridge of Sighs", Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 9 September 1965, p. 1 (illus.)
Thomas, L., ‘Hand of a Master: From Complexity to Seeming Simplicity", The Bulletin, Sydney, 4 December 1965, vol. 87, no. 4475, p. 41 (illus.)
McGregor, C. (et. al), Australian Art and Artists - In the Making, Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, 1969, p. 150 (illus.)
Abbott-Smith, N., Ian Fairweather, A Profile of a Painter, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1974, p. 136
Bail, M., Ian Fairweather, Bay Books, Sydney, 1981, cat. 176, pl. 96, pp. 180, 183 (illus.), 186, 208, 246
Bail, M., Fairweather, Murdoch Books, Sydney, 2009, pp. 179 - 180 (illus.), 194, 224
Roberts, C. and Thompson, J., Ian Fairweather. A Life in Letters, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2019, pp. 296, 298
IAN FAIRWEATHER
(1891 - 1974)
NIGHT LIFE, 1962
synthetic polymer paint and gouache on cardboard on composition board
66.0 x 92.0 cm
bears inscription verso: NIGHT LIFE / “NIGHT LIFE” / BY IAN FAIRWEATHER
bears inscription verso: NIGHT LIFE / “NIGHT LIFE” / BY IAN FAIRWEATHER
