Australian and International Fine Art Auction
Viewing Friday 19th July - Sunday 21st July
Auction Monday 22nd July 6 pm
Lot 1
David Keeling (1951- ) Australia
(Telegraph Pole)
Oil on linen on board
20.5 x 15cm (board) 37 x 32cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
SOLD
Lot 2
Raymond Arnold (1950- ) Australia
Chameleon Gallery Poster
1983
Screenprint
88 x 63cm (poster) 81 x 101cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
SOLD
Lot 3
Dr Seuss (1904-91) America
Horton Hears Who
Print Ed 104/ 850
38 x 51cm (sheet) 68 x 84cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Provenance Inscribed edition lower right on sheet
SOLD
Lot 4
Dr Seuss (1904-91) America
Oh The Places You'll Go
Print Ed 753/2500
33 x 44cm (print) 55 x 65cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Provenance Inscribed title lower centre below print, edition lower left below print
Estimate: $400 - $500
Lot 5
Fiona Hall (1953- ) Australia
The Worlds Moves in Appetency on its Metalled Ways of Time Past and Time Future
Print
26 x 33cm (sight) 39 x 45cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Estimate: $400 - $500
Lot 6
Geoff Dyer (1947- ) Australia
Dry Creek Bed
Gouache on paper
62 x 98cm (sight) 91 x 126
Condition Excellent
Signed verso
SOLD
Lot 7
Raymond Arnold (1950-) Australia
Henry IV Le cuissard gauche
2001
Etching Ed 12/15
69 x 63cm (plate) 90 x 63cm (sheet) 112 x 81cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower right 'Raymond A 2001' Inscribed title & edition lower left below plate
Provenance Private collection Hobart
Exhibited Raymond Arnold New French Prints 2004 Bett Gallery, Hobart cat #14
SOLD
Lot 8
Manner John Glover (1767-1849) Britain Australia
(Mountain Lake Scene)
71 x 91cm (stretcher) 82 x 102cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Provenance Private Collection: Bonhams UK 11 Sept 2008 cat #420
SOLD
Simpkinson de Wesselow Francis Guillemard (1819 – 1906) Britain Australia
Simpkinson De Wesselow, navel officer and artist arrived in Hobart in 1844 to work at the Ross Bank magnetic observatory. Along with two others, he was responsible for recording observations on an hourly basses. He worked and lived at the observatory, which still stands in the grounds of government house, and the sight was significant to the many sketched and watercolours he produced in Hobart. This site offered expansive views of the Derwent and Mt Wellington and was also close to the location of his 360 panorama Hobart town in 1948.
In 1845 and 1846, Simpkinson exhibited in the Hobart Town Art Exhibition with local artists such as John Skinner Prout, Lord Bishop Francis Nixon, and GTWB Boyes, as well as convict artists Thomas Griffith Wainewright and Thomas Bock. He established firm friendship with the circles who had known his aunt, Lady Jane Franklin, all thought she left Tasmania several months before his arrival.
Simpkinson painted avidly during his time in Hobart and also when travelling with Prout throughout Tasmania, Flinders Island and Victoria.
He returned to England at the end of 1848 where he would later inherit the name de Wesselow. The part of the 200 or so works of art he created in the colonies were stowed in a case until 1900 when he donated them to The Royal Society of Tasmania on hearing of their wish to acquire “relics of the past history of Tasmaina”.
While Simpkinson never exhibited in England, his colonial landscapes are testament to his competence of observation and commitment to watercolour, and provide an important record of Tasmanian landscape.
Lot 9
Simpkinson de Wesselow (1819-1906) Britain Australia
(Mount Wellington From Sandy Bay)
Waterolour, chinese white
24 x 37cm (sight) 51 x 63cm (fr)
Condition Excellent, some tears in paper
Provenance Collection William Percy Hood Hobart Framer, by descent. Valuation 1964 Verne Hodgeman Keeper of the Art Galleries. The Tasmanian Museum and Art Galleries.
SOLD
Francis Guillemard Simpkinson de Wesselow 1819 – 1906
Simpkinson de Wesselow, naval officer and artist arrived in Hobart in 1844 to work at the Ross Bank magnetic observatory. Along with two others, he was responsible for recording observations on an hourly basis.
Simpkinson worked and lived at the observatory (which still stands in the grounds of government house) and the sight was significant to the many sketched and watercolours he produced in Hobart. Each offered expansive views of the Derwent and Mt Wellington and was just a stones through from the location of his 360 panorama Hobart town in 1948.
In 1845 and 1846, S exhibited in the Hobart Town Art Exhibition with local artists such as John Skinner Prout, Lord Bishop Francis Nixon, and GTWB Boyes, as well as convict artists Thomas Griffith Wainewright and Thomas Bock. He established firm friendship with the circle who had known his aunt, Lady Jane Franklin, all thought she left Tasmania several months before his arrival.
Simpkinson painted avidly during his time in Hobart and also when travelling with Prout throughout Tasmania and Flinders Island and Victoria. Each of his sketches are inscribed with the location and date of the scene pictured, creating a detailed record of his itinerary.
Simpkinson returned to England at the end of 1848 where he would later inherit the name de Wesselow. The 200 or so works of art he created in the colonies were stowed in a case until 1900 when he donated them to The Royal Society of Tasmania on hearing of their wish to acquire “relics of the past history of Tasmaina”.
Lot 10
Haughton Forrest (1826-1925) Britain Australia
(Ship in Storm)
Oil on board
18 x 31cm (board) 35 x 46cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower left. Original frame.
Provenance Private collection Perth; by descent from Launceston family.
SOLD
Lot 11
Haughton Forrest (1826-1925) Britain Australia
(Sunset with Vessels)
Oil on board
14 x 25cm (board) 29 x 40cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower left. Original frame.
Provenance Private collection Perth; by descent from Launceston family.
SOLD
Lot 12
Geoff Dyer (1947- ) Australia
Upper Scamander River
1989
Gouache on Arches paper
87 x 148cm (sight) 120 x 172cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower right
Provenance Private Collection Hobart; Bett Gallery 1989
SOLD
Lot 13
Edith Holmes (1893-1973) Australia
Girl in Green
c1948
Oil on linen
44 x 33.5cm (stretcher) 53 x 43cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower left, label verso inscribed title, date,No18
Provenance Private collection Hobart, Masterpiece Gallery 1987
SOLD
Lot 14
Dorothy Stoner (1904-92) Australia
(Vase of Flowers)
Oil on gesso primed linen
59.5 x 50cm (sight) 84 x 72cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower left, inscribed verso FG1055, title
Provenance Private collection Hobart, Masterpiece Gallery 1988, Freeman Gallery
Estimate: $3,500 - $4,500
Lot 15
Haughton Forrest (1826-1925) Britain Australia
Ramsgate Pilot off to Wreck on Goodwin Sands
Oil on board
31 x 47cm (board)
50 x 66cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed with initials lower left, inscribed verso title in artists hand
Estimate: $12,000 - $14,000
Haughton Forrest (1826-1925), artist, was born France, and his family forced to flee to Jersey, England, on the commencement of the French revolution in 1830. Haughton was subsequently educated in Jamaica, where his father had extensive sugar plantations, and at a military college at Wiesbaden, Germany. From 1858 Forrest’s life was spent on the Isles of Wight and Man and in southern England where he spent much time yachting and painting marine subjects, some of which were reputedly commissioned by the Prince of Wales (King Edward VII).
In 1875 Forrest took up a grant of sixty acres (24 ha) in Parana, southern Brazil, but finding conditions unsuitable returned to London. Next year he migrated with his family to take up a grant of 100 acres (40 ha) in north-eastern Tasmania. Later he moved to Sorell where he obtained municipal appointments as bailiff of crown lands and also superintendent of police. in 1881 he moved to Wellington Hamlets, near Hobart.
Forrest spent the rest of his life after 1881 fully devoted to his art, painting many fine marine subjects and landscapes. His output, which spanned some seventy years, and varied from small oils, painted on board, to large canvases. The marine paintings were usually of stormy scenes in which the vessels were meticulously detailed and the foam-crested breakers remarkably green and translucent. By contrast, his landscapes were peaceful, with mystical backgrounds of hazy blue or purple mountains. In 1899 Forrest's views of Mount Wellington and Hobart, in conjunction with the photographs of J.W.Beattie formed the first set of pictorial stamps produced in Australia..
Forrest died on 20 January 1925 at Melton Mowbray.
Lot 16
Emanuel Phillips Fox (1865-1915) Australia
Sunset on Poplars
Oil on wood panel
27 x 35cm (panel) 38 x 46cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower left, Artists label verso Cat#29
SOLD
Lot 17
David Keeling (1951- ) Australia
Old Dreams Legana
2006
Oil on linen
120 x 91cm (stretcher) 125 x 94cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed and dated verso
Provenance Private collection, acquired from artist
Estimate: $8,000 - $10,000
Lot 18
Haughton Forrest (1826-1925) Britain Australia
(River Scene, Orford)
Oil on board, under original glass
21 x 29cm (sight) 46 x 54cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower left.
Provenance Allport family, hence by descent; Registered The Forest Project 2015 'Tasmanian River Scene' cat no 0023
SOLD
Lot 19
Dorothy Stoner (1904-92) Australia
(Still Life) RED
1977
Oil on canvas on board
70 x 55cm (sight) 76 x 61cm (fr)
Signed and dated lower left
Provenance UTAS Cat#75
SOLD
Lot 20
Rosamond McCulloch (1905-71) Scotland Australia
Collagion
1965
Mixed media on board
82 x 65cm (board) 91 x 73cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed verso and title , 35 gns
Exhibited Tasmanian Group of Painters 26 Annual Exhibition Tasmanian Art Gallery 19-31 August 1965 Cat#30,31
Estimate: $800 - $1,000
In 1991, the University of Tasmania received a bequest from the estate of the artist-lecturer, Rosamond McCulloch who had taught at the Tasmanian College of the Arts during the 1950s and 1960s. Rosamond McCulloch's wish was that her bequest should be used to assist a graduate of the School of Creative Arts to travel overseas.
In the spirit of the bequest, then, the University now has a permanent base in Paris. The $100,000 bequest was used to purchase a studio in the world-renowned studio complex, the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. The Cité is situated on the right bank of the river Seine, adjacent to Notre Dame on the Ile de la Cité and close to all of the main Paris galleries including the Louvre.
Lot 21
Ken Johnson (1950- ) Australia
Equator
Oil on linen
62 x 51cm (stretcher) 77 x 67cm (fr)
Condition Exellent
Signed lower right, incribed title verso
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 22
Emily Kame Kngwarreye (c1910-96) Australia
(Blue / Black/ White Stripes)
c1999
Gouache on paper
58 x 77cm (sheet) 86 x 104cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed verso
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 23
Owen Lade (1922-2007) Australia
Duncan II
Oil on board
92 x 60cm (board) 110 x 79cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower left, '30-6-1984', inscribed title, 'CP117' verso
Estimate: $3,000 - $3,500
Lot 24
Authorised Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Spanish
(Woman with Hat)
Silk scarf, hand rolled edges
96 x 93cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Provenance Printed lower left Authrized by the heirs of Pablo Picasso C Marigold Enterprizes New York NY 1981
Exhibited Georges Melbourne 1983
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 25
Authorised Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Spanish
(Man with Pipe)
Silk scarf, hand rolled edges
96 x 93cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Provenance Printed lower left Authrized by the heirs of Pablo Picasso C Marigold Enterprizes New York NY 1981
Exhibited Georges Melbourne 1983
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500
