Australian and International Fine Art Auction.
October 2017.
Lot 51
Lucien Dechaineux (1869-1957) Australia
Darling Range from Whitemark, Flinders Island 1940
Watercolour
30 x 35cm (sight)
57 x 60 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed lightly middle right
Private collection Hobart, Artists widow
Loaned to the Plimsoll gallery, 1982, exhibited Dechaineaux Retrospective Exhibition.
SOLD
Lot 52
Harry Buckie (1897 - 1972) Australia
Pittwater (Between Cambridge and Sorell, S.E. Tasmania) 1966
Watercolour
28 x 37 cm (sight)
51 x 59 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower right
Private collection Hobart; Homage to Florence Art Auction 1966
SOLD
Lot 53
Louis V Kahan (1905 - 2002) Australia
Two Girls, a Rose and a Lizard
Etching Ed 27/35
50 x 66 cm (plate)
62 x 82 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed and dated lower right, below plate Titled center, editioned lower left Private collection Hobart; 'Kahan's etchings and drypoints.' 1983 (illust) (29) Marco Polo Gallery, Hobart
SOLD
Lot 54
Alan Landale Turner (1944- 1971) Australia
Drawing 1 1968
Pencil on paper
49 x 32 cm (sight)
72 x 51 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed & dated lower right
Private collection Hobart; Alan Turner Retrospective Exhibition, 1975 (17) One of several images of the same model from drawing class Leon Kossof, St Martin's School of Art, London, while on Churchill Scholarship 1968
Estimate $600 - $700
Lot 55
Violet Emma Vimpany(1886- 1979) Australia
(Still Life Fruit and Spoon) 1945
Pencil on paper
29 x 39 cm (sight)
49 x 57 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower right
Private collection Hobart; Purchased from the artist, 1976
SOLD
Vimpany painted in oils and watercolours, made etchings, and was an active member of the Art Society of Tasmania, exhibiting with it from 1932 to 1975.
painter, etcher and monumental mason, was born Violet Emma Alomes in Forcett, Tasmania, in 1886. A painter by training and a monumental mason by chance, she studied art with Lucien Dechaineux at Hobart Technical College in 1928 and 1931-32, later sharing a studio with fellow students Mildred Lovett , Florence Rodway , Edith Holmes , Dorothy Stoner and Ethel M. Nicholls.
Lot 56
Jack Carington Smith (1908- 1972) Australia
Nude Drawing-Study for a painting
Charcoal and conte on paper
42 x 31 cm (sight)
67 x 52 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower left
Purchased George Woodberry gallery, 1972.
Estimate $400 - $600
Lot 57
Stephen Walker (1927-2014) Australia
Tasman Peninsula 1994
Charcoal on paper
23 x 54 cn (sight)
41 x 72 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed & dated lower left
Private collection Campania; Gifted by artist 1997
SOLD
Lot 58
Patricia Giles (1932- ) Australia
Maria Island, From Earlham 2008
Oil on canvas
59 x 74.5 cm (sight)
71 x 87 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower right, artist label verso
SOLD
Lot 59
Lily Karadada (1937 - ) Australia
Wandjina 2003
Natural earth pigments on bark
38.5 x 33.5 cm (bark)
68 x 61 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Gallery sticker verso
Private collection Hobart; Pearlers Row Gallery, Broome Kimberley Ochre Collection II 2003 (9)
SOLD
Lot 60
Lily Karadada (1937 - ) Australia
Wandjina 2003
Natural earth pigments on bark
50 x 20 cm (bark)
79 x 58 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Gallery sticker verso
Private collection Hobart; Pearlers Row Gallery, Broome Kimberley Ochre Collection II 2003 (8)
SOLD
Lot 61
Boshu Nagase Japan
(Fish)
Gyotaku print
30 x 36 cm (sight)
50 x 56 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed & stamped lower right
SOLD
The internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Boshu Nagase visited Hobart in 2006 to work on a folio of prints of Antarctic fish. These fish prints will illustrate a large-format book on Antarctic fish edited by Harvey Marchant of the Australian Antarctic Division and Mitsuo Fukuchi of the Japanese National Institute for Polar Research.
Boshu Nagase has over 40 years' experience of a printing art known as gyotaku (gyo = fish; taku = print, impression, rubbing). Gyotaku is a distinctively Japanese way of illustrating nature. In its simplest form (the direct method) paint is applied to a fish, shell or plant and a print is taken from the object onto paper or cloth. The indirect method of gyotaku requires much greater skill. Fine paper, not much thicker than tissue paper, is moistened and pressed to the surface of a fish or plant. Coloured inks are then applied to the paper in layers to colour the imprint of the organism. The result is an anatomically exact copy of the organism and coloured either as it is in nature or as the artist chooses.
Boshu Nagase is perhaps the principal living exponent of the indirect method. He has produced folios of gyotaku of the fish of the Great Barrier Reef, the Mediterranean Sea and the marine and freshwater fish of Japan. He has had many exhibitions and his work is on permanent display at the Australian Institute of Marine Science near Townsville, Queensland, the Monaco Museum of Oceanography, the University of Maine and in various
Japanese galleries.
Lot 62
Edith Holmes (1893-1973) Australia
Government House from Cornelian Bay
Oil on canvas
39 x 39 cm (stretcher)
56 x 56 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower left, Artists label verso
Private collection Hobart; Masterppiece Gallery, Hobart 2008, Deutcher Hackett April 2008 (223); Masterpiece Gallery 1986; Art Society Tasmania 1934 (107); Estate Ian Alstregren
A Catalogue Raisonne Edith Holmes 1893-1973 Don & Maggie Row Matroid Publications 2009 Cat 72, p 97
SOLD
Lot 63
Peter Max (1937 - ) America
Better World 111
Mixed media, colour lithography and acrylic on paper
59 x 44 (image)
95 x 80 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower right
Park West Gallery,Michigan
Certificate of Authenticity available
Estimate $2,000 - $3,000
Peter Max (b. 1937, American)
American artist. Max’s bold colours and uplifting images have influenced every phase of American culture and his work has inspired many across four decades. Regarded as America’s most successful commercial artist.
Peter Max has painted for six US presidents and his work is held in collections such as the Presidential library and the U.S. Embassy, his work is represented in over 40 Museums worldwide.
Description of Painting- Better World 111
A colourful vertically orientated mixed media painting with acrylic and colour lithography on paper, depicting a rising or setting cadmium red and yellow sun, with reflections in cobalt and cerulean blue waters. Horizontal strokes of red, pink, yellow and white glitter in the water. On each side are abstracted trees and flowers in the same colours, and with green mixed from the yellow and blues. They appear to be huge bouquets, all set against a lavender sky with white swirls for the clouds. The painting is signed at lower right. The piece is in very good condition. The work is framed in an antiqued gilded wood banding. (Information from Studio 95 gallery)
Lot 64
Peter Max (1937 - ) America
Blushing Beauty on Blends
mixed media on offeset lithograph
59 x 44cm (image)
95 x 80cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower right
Park West Gallery,Michigan
Estimate $1,000 - $2,000
Peter Max (b. 1937, American)
American artist. Max’s bold colours and uplifting images have influenced every phase of American culture and his work has inspired many across four decades. Regarded as America’s most successful commercial artist.
Peter Max has painted for six US presidents and his work is held in collections such as the Presidential library and the U.S. Embassy, his work is represented in over 40 Museums worldwide.
Description of Painitng- Blushing Beauty on blends
A vertically orientated mixed media painting with an offset lithograph. In the centre is a brightly coloured offset lithograph depicting a woman’s profile facing viewer’s left. She has an elaborate floral headdress in shades of red, blue, yellow and green, with some black and grey delineation. The face is set against a red and white ground and framed in a yellow and green frame. This print is set on top of black, violet and thalo green painted areas ad is signed in red and yellow paint by the artist lower right. The piece is in very condition. It is framed in a shiny black frame with a black mat.
Lot 65
Withdrawn from Auction
Lot 66
Edith Holmes (1893-1973) Australia
Cherry Blossom in Vase with Chinese Slipper
Oil on board
47 x 62 cm (sight)
67 x 82 (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower right
Private collection Hobart; Masterpiece Fine Art Gallery 2002; Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne (labels verso)
A Catalogue Raisonne Edith Holmes 1893-1973 Don & Maggie Row Matroid Publications 2009 Cat 415, p 263
Estimate $5,000 - $6,000
Lot 67
Edith Holmes (1893-1973) Australia
(Mixed bunch with Anemones in a Willow Pattern Vase)
Oil on canvas board
25 x 28 cm (sight)
57 x 58 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent Signed lower left
Private collection Hobart; Masterpiece Fine Art Gallery 2002
A Catalogue Raisonne Edith Holmes 1893-1973 Don & Maggie Row Matroid Publications 2009 Cat 69, p 96
SOLD
Lot 68
Edith Holmes (1893-1973) Australia
A Flower Study (Daisies)
Oil on canvas board
31 x 39 cm (sight)
63 x 69 cm(frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower left
Private collection Hobart; Salamanca Collection, Hobart 1996
Estimate $4,000 - $5,000
Lot 69
Patricia Giles (1932- ) Australia
Rocks and Shells
Mixed media on paper on board
48.5 x 50.5 cm (sight)
60 x 62 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower left, inscibed title verso
SOLD
Lot 70
Jock Young (1955 - ) Australia
Coastal Scene
Oil on canvas
60 x 59 cm (sight)
80 x 59 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower right
SOLD
Lot 71
Jock Young (1955 - ) Australia
Boatshed 1990
Linocut
30 x 30 cm (plate)
58 x 54 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed & dated lower right, titled lower centre
SOLD
Lot 72
Jock Young (1955 - ) Australia
Iron Pot 1990
Linocut
30 x 30 cm (plate)
58 x 54 (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed & dated lower right, titled lower centre
SOLD
Lot 73
Jock Young (1955 - ) Australia
Battery Point 1990
Linocut
30 x 30 cm (plate)
58 x 54 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed & dated lower right, titled lower centre
SOLD
Lot 74
Jock Young (1955 - ) Australia
Jetty, Opposum Bay
Oil on canvas
30 x 31 cm (stretcher)
50 x 51 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower right
Estimate $400 - $800
Lot 75
John Traynor (1924- ) Australia
Dry Creek Bed, Guide Falls 1985
Oil on canvas
49 x 75 cm (sight)
60 x 86 cm (frame)
Condition Excellent
Signed and dated lower left
