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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 16, 2015 | Bonhams | Sydney | Important Australian Art | 14 | $****** - ****** | Painting I |
paintings
68 x 86 cm (26.77 x 33.86 in)
synthetic polymer paint and gouache on cardboard on hardboard
signed and dated 'Ian Fairweather / 60' lower left
Mr Robert Shaw, Sydney, 1965,Mr James Baker, Sydney, 1984 ,
Private collection, Sydney,Mr Geoffrey C Brown, Queensland,
Private collection, Perth, acquired from the above in 2000
Ian Fairweather, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 6 - 18 July 1960, cat. 1,Australian Painting Today, Orange Regional Gallery, New South Wales, 1960, cat. 11,Fairweather: A Retrospective Exhibition, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 3 June - 4 July 1965, then touring; 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. 45, as 'Abstract', dated 1961 (label attached verso),Ian Fairweather, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, 18 May - 14 June 1984, cat. 66 ,Ian Fairweather Retrospective, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1 October - 27 November 1994, then touring; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 17 December 1994 - 19 February 1995; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 March - 7 May 1995, cat. 39,On loan to the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, May - June 2000In Painting I, indistinct figures and forms in red and blue appear to move behind semi-transparent washes of grey. Line is reduced and broadened from the previous decade's feverish canvases. at the Macquarie Galleries in July 1960, it is one of Fairweather's most successful and significant abstract paintings
Laurie Thomas, 'Ian Fairweather', Art and Australia, vol. 1, no. 1, May 1963, p. 38 (illus.) as Abstract,Robert Smith, Fairweather: A Retrospective Exhibition, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1965, cat. 45, no pagination,Ian Fairweather, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, 18 May - 14 June 1984, p. 28 (illus.),Fairweather, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1994, pl. 39, p. 111 (illus.),Murray Bail, Ian Fairweather, Bay Books, Sydney, 1981, pl. 85, cat. 157, p. 166 (illus.),Murray Bail, Fairweather, Murdoch Books, Sydney, 2009, revised edition, pl. 143, cat. 172, p. 167 (illus.)
