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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 29, 2017 | Deutscher and Hackett | Melbourne | Important Fine Art + Indigenous Art | 22 | $****** - ****** | LIT BATEAU (THE RAFT AT NIGHT) |
Works on Paper
73 x 92.5 cm (28.74 x 36.42 in)
gouache on cardboard
inscribed with title lower left: Lit Bateau; signed with artist"s monogram lower right: IF
Lina Bryans Collection, Melbourne
Thence by descent
Private collection, Melbourne
Ian Fairweather, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 20 November - 2 December 1957, cat. 16
Ian Fairweather, Museum of Modern Art of Australia, Melbourne, 19 - 29 August 1958, cat. 5
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; Western Australian Art Gallery, Perth, 9 December 1965 - 16 January 1966; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 10 February - 13 March 1966, cat. 87
Landfall: The Captain James Cook Bi-Centenary Exhibition of Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 7 April - 30 June 1970, without cat. numbers
Ian Fairweather 1891-1974, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 25 September - 6 November 1991, cat. 21 (A centenary commemoration in the Australian Art Project Gallery)
Fairweather (Retrospective), Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1 October - 27 November 1994; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 19 December - 19 February 1995; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 March - 7 May 1995, cat. 29
Bail, M., Fairweather, Murdoch Books, Sydney, revised edition 2009, pl. 82, cat. 143, pp. 104, 106 (illus.), 143, 255
Bail, M., et al., Fairweather, An Art and Australia Book, Craftsman House, Sydney in association with the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1994, pl. 29, p. 33, p. 101 (illus.)
IAN FAIRWEATHER
(1891 - 1974)
LIT BATEAU (THE RAFT AT NIGHT), 1957
gouache on cardboard
73.0 x 92.5 cm
inscribed with title lower left: Lit Bateau
signed with artist"s monogram lower right: IF
