Lot 1
Joan Taylor
Mutton Bird
Etching Ed 69/100
14.5 x 19.6cm (plate)
Exhibited Devonport Gallery, Auckland
Condition Good
SOLD
Lot 2
Joan Taylor
Shoe Island from Pauanui
Etching Ed 3/10
15 x 20cm (plate)
Signed below plate lower right
Exhibited Devonport Gallery, Auckland
Condition Good
SOLD
Lot 3
Jenny Marshall
New Norfolk Tas 1906
Watercolour
25 x 18cm (sheet)
Signed on verso
Condition Good
SOLD
Lot 4
Colonial Artist Unknown
View Near Botany Bay NSW
c. 1840
Hand coloured steel engraving
10.5 x 19cm (sight)
Condition Fair
SOLD
Lot 5
Max Angus
(Derwent River)
c. 1950
Watercolour
18 x 27cm
Condition Good
SOLD
Lot 6
Geoff Tyson
The Gap to Wineglass Bay (under mist) Tasmania
1969
Pen and Wash
35.5 x 45cm
Signed lower left
Condition Good
Estimate $600 - $800
Lot 7
Geoff Dyer (1947- )
King River, Tasmania
Watercolour on paper
76 x 112cm (sheet)
Signed lower right
Condition Good
SOLD
Lot 8
Nell Francombe (1906-2001)
Helichrysums
1999
Watercolour on paper
19 x 21cm (sight)
Signed lower right
Exhibited Hibiscus Gallery Hobart no. 33
Condition Excellent
SOLD
Lot 9
Peter Beadle
Glacier , Mount Pembrooke, Fjordland NZ
1974
Oil on Board
61 x 76cm
Signed lower right
Condition Good
Estimate $3,000 - $4,000
Lot 10
Peter Glover (1952-)
Herding Sheep, Cranbrook Tas
Oil on Board
14 x 24cm
Signed lower right
Condition Excellent
SOLD
Lot 11
Tim Fish (1956-2013)
(Sheep Grazing, East Coast Tasmania)
Watercolour on paper
18 x 32cm (sight)
Signed lower right
Condition Good
SOLD
Lot 12
Patricia Giles (1932- )
Lichen
Watercolour on paper
110 x 90cm
Signed lower right
Condition Good
Estimate $900 - $1,100
Lot 13
Stan Bugden
Relaxing Time (Kaiti Beach - Young Nicks Head Gisborne NZ)
Watercolour on paper
37 x 52cm (sight)
Signed lower right
Condition Good
Estimate $700 - $800
Lot 14
Kenneth Jack AM, MBE, RWS (1924 – 2006)
All Saints Church, Macquarie St Hobart 1949
Pen and Ink on paper
29 x 33cm (sight)
Signed lower left
Condition Good
Estimate $1,100 - $1,200
Australian watercolour artist who specialised in painting the images of an almost forgotten outback life, old mine workings, abandoned ghost towns, decaying farm buildings. He became a professional painter at 39 after giving up his job as Snr Instructor at the Caulfield Institute of Technology in 1977. Elected Royal Society of Watercolour Painters 1982, awarded Order of Australia 1987. Hard working romantic, melancholy.
Lot 15
Leon Hanson (1918- )
Afternoon, Upper Murray River
Oil on paper
38 x 45.5 (board)
Signed lower left
Condition Good
Estimate $2,000 - $3,000
Born in 1918 of Norwegian and Spanish parents, Leon William Hanson studied privately. He painted full time since World War II, holding exhibitions in all state capitals.
Lot 16
Arthur Boyd (1920-1999)
The Artist & His Muse
Etching Ed 13/35
25 x 19cm (plate)
Signed lower right below plate
Condition Excellent
SOLD
Lot 17
George Davis (1930-)
Egg Laying, September
Etching A/P
14 x 20.5cm (plate)
Signed lower right below plate
Condition Excellent
Estimate $1,000 - $1,400
Tasmanian painter well known for portrait, natural history and landscape. Studied under Jack Carrington Smith and Dorothy Stoner and Royal Academy Schools, London. Awarded commission to interpret Tasmania’s islands through drawing and painting 1976, including Macquarie, Goose, Fisher and Albatross. This resulted in drawings, etchings and oil works over many years.
Lot 18
Max Dupain (1911-1992)
Molle Street, West Hobart
1946
Silver gelatin photograph
48 x 58cm (board)
Condition Good
Estimate $1,600 - $1,800
Born in Sydney in 1911, Max Dupain studied art in Sydney before working in a commercial photography studio. He opened his own studio in Sydney in 1934, and was holding solo exhibitions from 1930 in Australia and overseas. During World War II he was a camouflage officer in the RAAF, and later became a photographer with the Department of Information. He returned to his photographic career after the war, his focus spanning such fields as portraiture, landscape and architecture. This is one of 3 known Hobart images taken at the time, including the newly completed Wrest Point Casino.
Lot 19
David Boyd (1924-2011)
Beauty & the White Horse
Colograph
66 x 77cm (sight)
Signed lower right below plate
Exhibited Charleston Fine Art
Condition Excellent
SOLD
Lot 20
Helen wright (1956-)
The Far Side of Curosity - Sphinx
1997
Coloured Litho on paper Ed 1/4
57 x 76cm (plate)
Signed lower right below plate
Condition Excellent
Estimate $1,800 - $2,300
Lot 21
Helen Wright
The Far Side of Curosity - Oracle
1997
Coloured Litho on paper Ed 1/4
57 x 76cm (plate)
Signed lower right below plate
Condition Excellent
Estimate $1,800 - $2,300
Lot 22
Elizabeth Cummings (1934-)
The Green Mango B&B
Etching Ed 8/25
34 x 32cm (plate)
Signed lower right below plate
Condition Excellent
Won NSW Travelling Scholarship and Studied Europe 1958-61, lived Florence 1961-68 returned to Sydney 1969. Energetic artist and teacher, has won many awards in drawing, print and painting, with recent retrospective held at Erwin Gallery, Sydney
SOLD
Lot 23
Peter Chesney
(Shed, New Norfolk)
Acrylic on Board
60 x 120cm (sight)
Signed lower left
Condition Good
SOLD
Lot 24
Jerzy Michalski (1949, arrived Aust 1992 - )
Doubt Private Movie VI
1995
Oil on Linen
41 x 51cm
Signed lower right
Exhibited Salamanca Collection, Hobart 1995
Condition Excellent
SOLD
Lot 25
Luke Wagner (1962-)
Three Days Later
2005
Oil on Linen
41 x 87cm
Signed lower right
Exhibited Salamanca Collection, Hobart : Libby Edwards, Melbourne
Condition Good
Tasmanian based artist. Widely exhibited Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart, finalist numerous times Tattersall’s, Glover and Lloyd Rees Art Prize.