Australian and International Fine Art Auction.
October 2017.
Lot 26
Lloyd Frederic Rees (1895 - 1988) Australia
Morning Light Karina 1984
Screenprint Ed AP
58 x 78 cm (plate)
84 x 102 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed & dated lower right below plate, titled lower centre
Private collection Hobart; Artist's 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.
Lot 27
William Strutt (1825 - 1915) Australia Britian New Zealand
(Two Horsemen Jousting) 1884
Pencil & watercolour on paper
10.2 x 17.5cm (sight)
39 x 44cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Inscribed lower right 'June 21st '84'
Estimate $1,000 - $1,200
Lot 28
William Strutt (1825 - 1915) Australia Britian New Zealand
Leap classes/ Maximus and Minimus
Pencil, ink & wash on paper
8.5 x 10.5cm both
38 x 49cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Inscribed title lower centre both
Estimate $2,000 - $2,500
Lot 29
A. Languinais (French)
French Landscape
Oil on canvas
47 x 63 cm (sight)
75 x 90 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent signed lower left
Estimate $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 30
Mildred Lovett (1880-1955) Australia
(Steamship at Docks) 1920
Oil on board
25 x 30cm (sight)
42 x 49cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed & dated lower right
Estimate $6,000 - $8,000
Lot 31
William Dunn Knox (1880-1945) Australia
(Yarra Valley)
Oil on board
22 x 30cm (sight)
35 x 43cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower right
SOLD
Lot 32
John Salvana (1873-1956) Australia Britian
Life on the Farm 1910
Oil on linen
26 x 41cm (stretcher)
43 x 58cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed & dated lower right
SOLD
Lot 33
Vivian Webb (1892-1974) Australia
Farm Near Kingston
Oil on board
20 x 23.5cm (sight)
41 x 45cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower left
SOLD
Lot 34
Michael Schlitz (1967 - ) Australia
Balancing (Tryptch)
Woodcut on kozo paper Ed 3/4
58 x 87cm (plate) x3
65 x 87 cm (sheet) x 3
87 x 107 cm (frame) x 3
Condition Excellent
Titled and inscribed below plate
Estimate $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 35
Glimpse of Government House, Hobart Town, from the Railway 1877
Handcoloured wood engraving
10 x 22 cm (image)
43 x 53 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Titled lower centre Private collection Hobart; Gerard Willems, Engraving from Australasian Sketcher
SOLD
Lot 36
Patricia Giles (1932 - ) Australia
She Oakes, Coles Bay 1976
Watercolour
40 x 53 cm (sight)
53 x 67 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower left, inscribed title verso
SOLD
Lot 37
Jock Young (1955 - ) Australia
Boat Sheds, Kettering 1996
Watercolour on paper
51 x 75 cm (sheet)
79 x 101 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent Signed and dated lower left
SOLD
Lot 38
Alan Landale Turner (1944- 1971) Australia
Icarus Drowning 1967
Etching & aquatint Ed 4/8
20 x 15 cm (plate)
36 X 31 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed & dated lower left below plate, title lower centre, edition lower left below plate
SOLD
Lot 39
Geoff Parr (1933 - 2017) Australia
Shadows across the Holyland 1967
Oil on board
145 x 185cm (board)
Condition Excellent Inscribed verso, label Blake Prize
SOLD
Lot 40
Jack Carington Smith (1908 - 1972)
Capitals in Corinth 1964
Watercolour on paper
34 x 47 cm (image)
54 x 64 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed & dated lower left, inscribed title lower right and verso
SOLD
Lot 41
Sydney Long (1871 - 1955) Australia
Beddington Corner 1922
Aquatint edition 23/30
25 x 25 cm (plate)
54 x 52cm (frame)
Condition Good
Signed lower left below plate, titled lower centre and inscribed titled, exhibiitions and dated verso Australian National Gallery 1955 memorial exhibition, Australian Painter Etcher catalogue 1922
Australian National Gallery Sydney Long A.R.E. 1922; Australian Painters Etchers 1922 (111); Memorial Exhibition 1955 (79)
SOLD
Lot 42
Lloyd Frederic Rees (1895 - 1988) Australia
The Little Boat 1983
Lithograph Ed 72/100 Printer Fred Genis
19.1 x 25.7 cm (plate)
33 x 38cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed & dated lower right below plate
Renee Free
Lloyd Rees The Later Work Sydney The Craftsmans Press 1983
SOLD
Lot 43
Harry Buckie (1897 - 1982) Australia
Tranquil Morning c.1945
Watercolour
32 x 42 cm (sight)
53 x 61 cm (frame)
Condition Good
Signed lower right
Original floating pontoon bridge from Hobart to Lindisfarne pre Tasman Bridge
SOLD
Lot 44
Salvador Dali (1904-89) Spanish
Divine Comedy - At the Edge of the Seventh Bolge, Inferno 11
Colour wood engraving screenprint
25 x 18 cm (Image)
31.5 x 24 cm (Sheet)
68.5 x 61 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed on the block
Park West Gallery, Michigan
Certificate of Authenticity available
SOLD
Description of work- At the Edge of the Seventh Bolge, Inferno 11
A vertically orientated colour wood engraving depicting a scene from Dante Alighieri’s. Inferno, at the Edge of the Seventh Circle or Bolge. The scene is of many contorted and stretched naked figures in shades of grey, dark blue, ochre, and with touches of red and pink. Underneath the figures is a red cartouches with the artist’s signature (on the plate). At lower right is embossing with the artist’s signature on the diagonal. The print is in very good condition and is framed in a gilded wood frame with white linen mate which has a gilded banding. (Information from Studio 95 gallery)
Lot 45
Sir Lionel Lindsay (1874 - 1961) Australia
White Goats 1925
Woodcut
15.5 x 15 cm (plate)
41 x 37 cm (frame)
Condition Condition Good, glued along upper edge of sheet
Signed lower left below plate, inscribed title lower centre below plate
Estimate $400 - $500
Lot 46
Tim Fish (1956-2015) Australia
(Sailing Ship, Ocean)
Watercolour on paper
12 x 29 cm (sight)
31 x 47 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower right
SOLD
Lot 47
Anthony David (Tony) Woods (1940-2017) Australia
A New Figure 1967
Oil on canvas
80 x 60 cm (stretcher)
95 x 74 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed & dated lower left, signed and titled verso
Private collection Hobart; Farewell Exhibiton The Bistro, Collins Street Hobart (16)
SOLD
Title of the work is said to be attributed to the model believed to be Rhonda’ being with child and Tony the father, hence ‘a New Figure’.
Lot 48
George Davis (1930- ) Australia
Clifton Beach 1970
Oil on canvas on board
77 x 84 cm (sight)
81 x 89 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower right
Private collection Hobart: George Davis Paintings (19) 1979, Salamanca, Hobart.
SOLD
Lot 49
George Davis (1930- ) Australia
(Study Portrait of a Young Woman)
Oil on board
39 x 32cm (sight)
52 x 45cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Private collection Hobart; Gift of artist's sister
Estimate $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 50
Louis V Kahan (1905 - 2002) Australia
Girl Reading II 1982
Etching Ed 10/18
21 x 33 cm (plate)
40 x 48 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed and dated lower right below plate, Signed on plate lower right Private collection Hobart; Marco Polo Gallery, Hobart, 1983
Estimate $300 - $400
