Australian and International Fine Art Auction.
October 2017.
Lot 1
Les Blakeborough (1930 - ) Australia
UTAS Cup & saucer Southern Ice Porcelain
Cup 8 x 12 x 10.5 cm saucer 4 x 16 cm
Condition Excellent
Signed on base transfer.
Limited edition specifically made for UTAS
Estimate $100 - $200
This is a limited edition, “Southern Ice” cup and saucer set and handcrafted by world renowned ceramicist Les Blakebrough.
Trained in both Australia and Japan, Master Potter Les Blakebrough is a Research Fellow, UTAS. His classic forms in pristine porcelain grace every major gallery in Australia.
The name “Southern Ice” is given to the porcelain to reflect Tasmania’s particular qualities - the whiteness of the snow and the translucence of ice. This set is made with the whitest, most translucent clay available. Hand Painted gold detail. These sets were produced exclusively for UTAS, and were presented for Commemorative occasions and significant staff presentations.
Lot 2
Maurice Namatjira (1938 - 1977) Australia
(Landscape and Gum)
Watercolour
17 x 24 cm (sight)
30 x 38 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower right
SOLD
Lot 3
Desidius Orban (1884-1986) Australia
The Village c.1941
Ink & pencil
25 x 31cm (sight)
45 x 52cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed & dated lower right
Estimate $500 - $700
Lot 4
Desidius Orban (1884-1986) Australia
On the Beach c.1941
Ink & pencil
25 x 31cm (sight)
45 x 52cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed & dated lower left
Estimate $500 - $700
Lot 5
Withdrawn from Auction
Lot 6
Richard Stucley Boden (1947 - ) Australia
(Flowers in Blue Vase)
Oil on paper
77 x 64cm (sight)
94 x 81cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower right & verso
Private collection Hobart; Gifted by Dorothy & May Stoner
SOLD
Lot 7
Deborah Paauwe (1972- ) Australia
Red Aphabet c.2002
Type C Photograph, Edition 5
120 x 120cm (print)
Condition Excellent
Gallery label verso
Private collection Hobart; Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide
Estimate $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 8
Patricia Giles (1932 - ) Australia
Rainforest Track
Watercolour
61 x 40 cm (sight)
85 x 62 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower left
Inscibed title verso; Freeman Gallery Hobart FG3356
SOLD
Lot 9
Peter Glover (1952 - ) Australia
(Ben Lomond)
Oil on canvas
51 x 75 cm (sight)
63 x 89 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower left
Estimate $800 - $1,400
Lot 10
Jock Young (1955-) Australia
Procession
Handcoloured Lino print Ed 4/30
30 x 30cm (plate)
57 x 53cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed & dated lower right below plate
(Inscibed title lower centre)
SOLD
Lot 11
Jock Young (1955-) Australia
Rounding John Garrow Light c.1994
Handcoloured Lino print Edition 26/30
34 x 32 cm (plate)
60 x 55 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed & dated lower right below plate
SOLD
Lot 12
Jock Young (1955-) Australia
Rock Study 11
Gouache on paper
35 x 54 cm (sight)
60 x 79 cm (frame)
Condition Condition Excellent
Signed lower right
Freeman Gallery, label verso
SOLD
Lot 13
Jock Young (1955-) Australia
Waiting for the Wind c.1994
Hand coloured Lino print Edition 2/30
27 x 26 cm (plate)
53 x 50 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed & dated lower right below plate
SOLD
Lot 14
Sir Lionel Lindsay (1874-1961) Australia
Old Antequera, Spain c.1929
Drypoint etching
23 x 30 cm (plate)
43 x 52 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower left below plate, signed & titled on platte lower left
SOLD
Lot 15
Desidius Orban (1884-1986) Australia
Assisi c.1937
Oil on mirror
47 x 31 cm (sight)
57 x 40 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed & dated lower right
SOLD
Lot 16
Featherston
Plum Leather Armchair c1950
Leather
75 x 80 x 75cm
Condition Excellent
SOLD
Lot 17 #
Stephen Lees (1954- ) Australia
Casper Cove 2011
Oil on board
40.5 x 46 cm (board)
62 x 68 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower right
Private collection Brisbane; Colville Gallery Stephen Lees Recent Works 2011
Estimate $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 18 #
Stephen Lees (1954- ) Australia
Boats to China 2013
Oil on board
40.5 x 46 cm (board)
62 x 68 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower right
Private Collection Brisbane; Colville Gallery Stephen Lees Recent Works 2013
Estimate $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 19
Stephanie Tabram (1959- ) Australia
4.30 Bus 2006
Acrylic on linen
125 x 125 cm (stretcher)
136 x 136 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed & dated lower right
Private collection Sydney; Salamanca Collection Hobart Solstice Exhibition
Estimate $7,000 - $8,000
Lot 20
Stephanie Tabram (1959- ) Australia
Sunset on the Strip 2009
Acrylic on linen
153 x 153cm (stretcher)
Condition Excellent
Signed & dated lower right
Private collection Sydney; Colville Gallery Hobart
Estimate $8,000 - $9,000
Lot 21
David Keeling (1951- ) Australia
Narawntapu (Diptych) 2007
Oil on linen
152 x 302cm (dyptch total)
Condition Excellent
Signed & dated verso both panels
Private collection Hobart; Bett Gallery David Keeling The Longer Look 2007 (3)
SOLD
Lot 22#
Timothy (Tim) Maguire (1958 - ) Australia
Untitled 20110303
Oil on canvas
200 x 150cm
Condition Excellent
Signed & inscribed title verso
Private Collection Hobart; Von Lintel Gallery NY
Estimate $70,000 - $80,000
Lot 23
Haughton Forrest (1826-1925) Australia
Mackey’s Camp, Tasmania
Oil on academy board
58.5 x 44cm (sight)
103 x 91cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Private Collection Hobart; Masterpiece Gallery
Estimate $28,000 - $38,000
This painting depicts a settler's camp adjacent to land granted to Haughton Forrest in 1876 before he emigrated to Tasmania from his address in The Strand, London. He immediately sold the grant because it was clear that it would require effort and substantial capital to develop. The new owner subsequently opened what became the leading tin mine in Australia. The painting is of a mining scene and is said to be at Brisies Mine on Cascade River below Brisies Dam, with the scene depicting tarring of water pipes used for sluicing tin.
Forrest painted most of his inaccessible depictions in the Tasmanian wilderness, from photographs taken by Beattie. The Beattie photograph (entitled Camp Maestris, Mount Dundas (State Library Tasmania) presently held by the State Library Tasmania. Haughton Forrest painted more than one version of Mackey’s Camp, an very close version is depicted in colour plate 32, George Deas Brown Haughton Forrest 1982 Malakoff Fine Art Press, p155.
Colville Gallery is grateful to acknowledge the research and involvement of Geoff Ayling, Principal Researcher, of The Forrest Project, for their work is establishing a credible and credited database specifically cataloguing the works of this important Tasmanian artist.
Lot 24
William Buelow Gould (1803-1853) Britian, Australia
Rabbit and Rosella
Oil on canvas
79 x 67cm (stretcher)
95 x 83cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower left 'W.B. Gould/ Hobarton'
Private Collection Hobart; Masterpiece Gallery; Leonard Joel australian Paintings 19/11/1971 'Hanging Game' (286) Clune Galleries 1968 Exhibition (54) Label verso
Estimate $25,000- $35,000
This is an unusual and very rare work by Gould depicting a native Tasmanian Rosella, where many of his still life works show rabbits and game birds, it is unusual to include native species. Original burl frame.
Lot 25
Lloyd Frederic Rees (1895 - 1988) Australia
September Sunshine Bathurst 1984
Screenprint Ed AP
76 x 58 cm (plate)
105 x 84 cm (framed)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower & dated lower right below plate titled lower centre Private collection Hobart; Artists studio
SOLD
Morning Light Karina & September Sunshine are Proofs of a numbered edition of one hundred screen prints in a set of four. Dr. Lloyd Rees C.M.G receive the inspirration for this work in the Bathurst area while staying at the homme of J&S Pollard at “Karinya”, Duramana on the road to Hill End.
The set was printed by Robert Potter of Vogue displays by process screen print method using flat inks to achieve Dr. Rees’ glowing colour and atmospheric qualities.
Ken and Dawn Hobson published the prints. Some eighteen months elapsed from the time it was agreed to try and translate Dr. Rees’ later works in oils and watercolours, into prints that would be faithful to his colour and style.
