Australian and International Fine Art Auction
Tuesday 5 March. 2019
Viewing Friday 1 – Monday 4 March
Lot 1
Tom Samek (1950 Czech Republic, arr Aust 1971)
Sticky
2006
Print Ed 15/70
40 x 35cm (image) 74 x 65cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed below plate edition, title, date
SOLD
Lot 1A
Tom Samek (1950 Czech Republic arr Aust 1971- )
The Party c1999
Signed lower right
Oil on linen
90 x 105cm
Estimate: $4,500 - $6,500
Lot 2
Owen Lade (1922-2007 ) Australia
Old Oatlands Inn (Police Headquaters)
1971
Watercolour
24 x 34cm (sight) 52 x 59cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Provenance artists label verso 'Old Oatlands Inn (Now Police Headquaters) 8/4/71 soon to be demonished for a new police station behind this building/ demonished October 1971
Signed lower right
SOLD
Lot 3
David Roberts RA (1796-1864) Louis Haghe Lith England
(The Holy Land) 5 Prints
1838
Lithpgraphs (3) Prints (2)
a, b, 33 x 47cm (sight) 51 x 66cm (fr) c 24 x 34cm (sight) d,e 15 x 22cm (image)
Condition Good
Provenance Estate John Crossman stationed United Nations Peace Corps 1974 Jerusalem
Signed on plate a) Petra March 6 1839 lower left b) Kom Ombo Nov 21 1838 lower right c) Demdera Dec 7 1838 lower left
SOLD
Lot 4
Harris Smith ( ) Australia
Sunlit Afternoon, Coles Bay
1980's
Oil on canvas board
25 x 29cm (sight) 59 x 62cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Exhibited Strickland Gallery, Hobart
Signed lower right, inscibed title verso
SOLD
Lot 5
Harris Smith ( ) Australia
Summer Afternoon Mermaid Pool, Bridport
1980's
Oil on canvas board
13 x 22cm (sight) 31 x 40cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
signed lower right, inscribed title verso
SOLD
Lot 6
Todd Jenkins ( 1970- ) Australia
Haiku
2005
Oil on canvas board
180 x 150cm
Condition Excellent
Signed and dated lower right
SOLD
Lot 7
John Mather (1848-1916) Scotland, Australia
Edge of the Swamp
Watercolour
13 x 17.5cm (sight) 40 x 40cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Provenance Conservation framing by Studio Caft Melbourne 1987
Signed lower left, conservation label verso, inscribed verso '28' and 'No 250'
Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800
Lot 8
Clifton Pugh (1924-90) Australia
(Platter and Fish)
1960
Oil on board
41 x 55cm (board) 57 x 73cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Provenance Estate Neil Abercrombe who was Senior Lecturer Town Planning Melbourne University early 1960's
Signed and dated lower left
SOLD
Lot 9
David Nash (1955- ) Australia
Head
2002
Gouache
22 x 29cm (sight) 42 x 40cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower right, artists label verso title and date
Estimate: $400 - $500
Lot 10
Tim Burns (1947- ) Australia
(Abstract Tree)
1998
Ink on paper
31 x 23cm (sheet) 59 x 47cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Exhibited Bett Gallery, Hobart
Initial and date lower left
SOLD
Lot 11
Kim Westcott (1968-) Australia
(Red Light)
1995
Gouache, wax crayon, encaustic on Japanese paper plus Kim Westcott book
15 x 10cm (panel) two panels 43 x 56cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Literature Roger Taylor 'Kim Westcott' Craftsman House 1998 Signed by artist
Signed lower right
Estimate: $900 - $1,200
Lot 12
John Jensen
(Tree and Sty)
1937
Watercolour
39 x 42cm (sight) 54 x 56cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed, title and date verso
SOLD
Lot 13 #
Edith Holmes (1893-1973) Australia
(Arum Lillies and Brown Jug)
Oil on board
38 x 38.5cm (sight) 42 x 43cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower right
SOLD
Lot 14
George Davis (1930- ) Australia
Batting Hawk
1975
Oil on canvas
92 x 122cm (stretcher) 112 x 144cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Exhibited University of Tasmania 2008- 2018 #2008018 ; People, Places and the Figure Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Cat #49
Provenance Estate Winifred Knight; Label verso UTAS 2008/003 LOAN, Label verso 'Collection Winifred Knight #18, Catalogue compiled for the Knight family 2008 by Rosanna Cameron'; inscribed verso 'Reframed by Ray Prince May 88'
Literature Barry Pearce Australian Artists - Australian Birds AGNSW Angus and Robertson 1989 p 138 (illust)
Signed lower left
SOLD
Lot 15
Dorothy Stoner (1904-92) Australia
Spring Snow After the Fires
c1972
Oil on canvas
117 x 82cm (stretcher) 133 x 98cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Exhibited University of Tasmanian 2008 - 2018; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Edith Holmes Dorothy Stoner 25 August - 2 October 1983 #99: Sadlers Court, Richmond November 1975 Cat #2 Salamanca Place Gallery 15-30 September 1975
Provenance Estate Winifred Knight; Label verso UTAS 2008/018 LOAN, Label verso 'Collection Winifred Knight #69, Catalogue compiled for the Knight family 2008 by Rosanna Cameron'; Label verso Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery/ Edith Holmes Dorothy Stoner /25 August - 2 October 1983 #99
Literature Hendrik Kolenberg Edith Holmes Dorothy Stoner two retrospectives Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 1983 cat 99 p.19 Illust
Signed lower left, signed verso , title, address and phone number
SOLD
B England 1904 arr Aust 1921 Stoner studied at the Hobart Technical College under Dechaineux, later teaching at same, 1936-64, alongside Carington Smith. She engaged on further study George Bell School 1939, London and Paris 1949-50, and East Sydney Tech under John Passmore Godfrey Miller.
“In Paris, the gods of Picasso and Matisse were very evident and her work is best understood against this background as it incorporates elements of fauvism and cubism
In the late 1960’s her work developed from form to imagination, this large poetic landscape (Spring Snows After the Fires c1972) confirms her poetic impulses, this the most lyrical response by a local artist to the aftermath of Tasmania’s tragic 1967 bushfires, and the precursor to the verdant landscapes of the late 1970’s.
Her most successful work issues from a risky but instinctive struggle in which natural appearances are transformed into intense structures of shape, colour and form which aim to create a heightened sense of reality.”
Notes From H Kolenberg ‘Two Retrospectives Edition Holmes Dorothy Stoner’ TMAG 25 August – 2 October 1983
Lot 16
Tony Woods (1940 - 2017) Australia
Ballet
c1975
Oil on canvas
144.5 x 100cm (stretcher) 147 x 101cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Exhibited University of Tasmania 2008 - 2018
Provenance Estate Winifred Knight; Label verso UTAS 2008/024 LOAN titled (Two Figures), Label verso 'Collection Winifred Knight #91, titled (Two Figures) Catalogue compiled for the Knight family 2008 by Rosanna Cameron';
Estimate: $8,000 - $10,000
F.A.D. Hobart, 1963 Studies under J.Carington Smith, Dorothy Stoner, George Davis
‘1963, city studio 2nd floor 136a Collins Street Hobart, later in 1965 also rented the top floor that had been a ballet school, I inherited a very large mirror which I was able to utilize in my oil paintings later on.’ Tony Woods An Archive Art Info.com 2013’
He was awarded the Harkness fellowship, which supported 21 months painting, New York, 1968/69
Well known for figurative, his period in NY saw a shift to contemporary abstraction over the 2 years of his residency. In the last months a major disaster occurred with a studio fire and he lost all his paintings. He was further offered a Power fund, Studio Fellowship, France, 1970 but was unable to take up at the time.
Returning to Australia he moved to Sydney and painted alongside Brett Whitely at a shared house Palm Beach working to joint show in Perth 1971. Following that Woods moved to Melb, but also maintained a small property at Dunally, Tasmania, where he had a shed as a studio. Melbourne saw his engagement with printmaking with encouragement from Fred Williams, while his later work took on super8 filmmaker, video/mdv & field recordings
1990 saw a major retrospective ACCA, Tony died 2017.
A significant painter, his painting encompasses themes of the structure of shadows, figurative and later abstraction.
Lot 17
Frank Hodgkinson (1919-2001) Australia
Arnhemland
1980
Gouache and pencil on paper
54 x 73cm (sight) 82 x 100cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Exhibited University of Tasmania 2008 - 2018
Provenance Estate Winifred Knight; Label verso UTAS 2008/011 LOAN, Label verso 'Collection Winifred Knight #36 Catalogue compiled for the Knight family 2008 by Rosanna Cameron'; Exhibition label verso #35
Signed lower left
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 18
Marie Piscioneri
Cathedral
Oil on canvas
75 x 60cm (sight) 89 x 73cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Exhibited University of Tasmania 2008 - 2018
Provenance Estate Winifred Knight; Label verso UTAS 2008/017 LOAN , Label verso 'Collection Winifred Knight #56, Catalogue compiled for the Knight family 2008 by Rosanna Cameron';
Signed lower right, inscribed title verso
Estimate: $600 - $800
Lot 19
Winifred Knight (1921-2008) Australia
Forest Forms
Mixed media on paper
60 x 55cm (sight) 83 x 77cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Exhibited University of Tasmania 2008 - 2018
Provenance Estate Winifred Knight; Label verso UTAS 2008/029 LOAN , Label verso 'Collection Winifred Knight #75, Catalogue compiled for the Knight family 2008 by Rosanna Cameron';
Signed lower right
SOLD
Lot 20
Dorothy Stoner (1904-92) Australia
Yellow Daises
Oil on canvas
47 x 46cm (sight) 74 x 69cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Exhibited University of Tasmania 2008 - 2018
Provenance Estate Winifred Knight; Label verso UTAS 2008/019 LOAN , Label verso 'Collection Winifred Knight #73, Catalogue compiled for the Knight family 2008 by Rosanna Cameron';
Signed lower right
Estimate: $3,000 - $4,000
Lot 21
Winifred Knight (1921-2008) Australia
Mountain Slope
Gouache
44 x 58cm (sight) 72 x 84cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Exhibited University of Tasmania 2008 - 2018
Provenance Estate Winifred Knight; Label verso UTAS 2008/030 LOAN , Label verso 'Collection Winifred Knight #122, Catalogue compiled for the Knight family 2008 by Rosanna Cameron';
Signed lower right
SOLD
Lot 22
Yvonne Pagh () Australia
Bay of Fires
1995
Etching
49 x 59cm (plate) 75 x 82cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Exhibited University of Tasmania 2008 - 2018; Art Society of Tasmania 1995
Provenance Estate Winifred Knight; Label verso UTAS 2008/016 LOAN , Label verso 'Collection Winifred Knight #54, Catalogue compiled for the Knight family 2008 by Rosanna Cameron';
Signed, dated lower right
SOLD
Lot 23
Winifred Knight (1921-2008) Australia
Coles Bay Rocks
Gouache
61 x 48cm (sight) 90 x 75cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Exhibited University of Tasmania 2008 - 2018
Provenance Estate Winifred Knight; Label verso UTAS 2008/031 LOAN , Label verso 'Collection Winifred Knight #123, Catalogue compiled for the Knight family 2008 by Rosanna Cameron';
Signed lower right
SOLD
Lot 24
Edith Holmes (1893-1973) Australia
Geese and Trees
1970
Oil on board
62 x 74cm (sight) 71 x 84cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Exhibited University of Tasmania 2008 - 2018 Exhibited as (Landscape with Birds); Edith Holmes Dorothy Stoner two retrospectives 1983 Cat 69 Illust p 53; Glenorchy Antique Bazaar 1975 Cat 53 exhibited as Abstract: Geese in Flight Art Socity of Tasmania Edith Homes Memorial Exhibition 1974 Cat 23 Geese and Trees; Art Society of Tasmania 88th Annual Exhibition cat 27 Geese and Trees
Provenance Estate Winifred Knight; Label verso UTAS 2008/012 LOAN , Label verso 'Collection Winifred Knight #38, Catalogue compiled for the Knight family 2008 by Rosanna Cameron';
Literature Hendrik Kolenberg Edith Holmes Dorothy Stoner two retrospectives Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 1983 cat 69 p.53 Illust
Signed lower left
SOLD
B 1893 Tasmania, in Hobart Edith studied under Lucian Dechaineux and in Sydney at the Julian Ashton School of art, later working with George Lambert and Thea Proctor.
During the 1930’s she held several solo exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne. However, her first real acceptance came when her work was acclaimed by Rupert Bunny.
In 1956 Edith made her first of three visits to Europe and subsequently saw the influences of Pissarro and Bonnard.
Her principal motifs were places, people and things that she loved, familiar views, family friends, flowers and textiles, Light on the water, sunsets, reflected light and brilliantly lit transparent summery skys.
Notes From H Kolenberg ‘Two Retrospectives Edition Holmes Dorothy Stoner’ TMAG 25 August – 2 October 1983
In March 1970 she was guest artist of Fine Arts Committee UTAS, Man and His Art, a show opened by Lloyd Rees. The 72 works covered retrospectively 1948 – 1970.
Edith had exhibited frequently at The Tasmanian Art Society and in the 88th Annual show in 1972 she exhibited cat#27 ‘Geese and Trees’ cat#28 ‘Sussex’. This was to be the last time she exhibited works prior to her death in 1973.
In March 1974 the Art Society of Tasmania presented Edith Holmes Memorial Exhibition, some 43 works including cat#23 ‘Geese and Trees’. A further selling exhibition was mounted by Chapman Powell Gallery Melbourne in December 1974, and Glenorchy Bazaar October 1975 some 58 works including cat#53 ‘Abstract Geese in Flight’ In Oct 1983, this work was included in TMAG Edith Holmes Dorothy Stoner cat #69 assigned the descriptive title (Geese and Mrs Pitts Wisteria) as donated by the brackets of the title in the catalogue.
This painting, created 1970 after the exhibition Man and His Art UTAS and exhibited in her last exhibition with Art Society of Tasmania, 1972, can be considered the last know painting by this artist.
Lot 25
Patricia Giles (1932- ) Australia
Lichen and Cythodes II
1997
Monotype
41 x 35cm (plate) 66 x 58cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Exhibited University of Tasmania 2008 - 2018, Salamca Collection
Provenance Estate Winifred Knight; Label verso UTAS 2008/007 LOAN , Label verso 'Collection Winifred Knight #26, Catalogue compiled for the Knight family 2008 by Rosanna Cameron'; Salamanca Collection Label
Signed lower right below plate, inscibed title lower left below plate
Estimate: $1,100 - $1,400
