Australian and International Fine Art Auction
Monday 24th Febuary
Lot 1
Zsuzsa Kollo (1963- ) Australia
Boy With Red Fish 2010
Oil on linen
61 x 51cm (stretcher)
Condition Excellent
Signed and title verso
Exhibited Colville Gallery
SOLD
Lot 2
Elizabeth Cummings (1934- ) Australia
Bush Study c1977
Mixed media on paper
39 x 26cm (sight) 53 x 35cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower right, signed and title verso
SOLD
Lot 3
Conrad Martens (1801-78) Britian, Australia
Lumley 1836
Pencil on paper
14 x 26cm (sight) 32 x 42cm (fr)
Condition Excellent, minor crease upper left
Inscribed, date lower right
Provenance Sotheby's 1985
SOLD
Roxburgh Early Colonial Houses of New South Wales 1974 Ure Smith Sydney p450 Lumley Park, Bungonia…”both Mitchell (Major Thomas Mitchell, Surveyor-General) and Futter (Robert Futter, owner of Lumley property) bought paintings of the Bungonia area from Conrad Martens, who surely stayed at Lumley when he painted the estate.”
Lot 4
Attrib John Glover (1767-1849) Britain, Australia
Castle Landscape c1810
Watercolour on paper
20 x 25cm (sight)
Condition Excellent
Label verso from reframer noting attribution on old label
Estimate: $4,000 - $5,000
Lot 5
George Bell (1878-1966) Australia
Still Life Flowers in Green Vase 1943
Oil on canvas
46 x 38cm (stretched) 60 x 51cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed, dated lower left
Estimate: $3,500 - $5,500
Lot 6
Mike Parr (1945- ) Australia
Self Portrait 1987
Etching Ed 5/5
79 x 107cm (plate) 106 x 137cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed dated below plate
Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500
Lot 7
Mike Parr (1945- ) Australia
Self Portrait 1992
Etching Ed 45/60
59 x 78cm (plate) 98 x 116cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed dated below plate
Estimate: $1,200 - $2,000
Lot 8
Mike Parr (1945- ) Australia
Self Portrait 1989
Etching AP
79 x 107cm (plate) 106 x 137cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed dated below plate
SOLD
Lot 9
Haughton Forrest (1826-1925) Britain Australia
Mount Wellington
Oil on board
38 x 43cm (board) 48 x 64cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Inscribed title verso
SOLD
Lot 10
Richard Larter (1929-2014) Australia
Jay's Birthday Painting 1996
Acrylic and gesso on canvas
182 x 105cm
Condition Excellent
Signed title dated verso
Provenance Private Collection Melbourne: Deautcher Menzies Melbourne 4/6/2003 Cat#96: Private collection Queensland: Jay Larter, granson of the artist
Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000
Lot 11
Richard Larter (1929-2014) Australia
Hump 1995
Acrylic and gesso on canvas
182 x 105cm
Condition Excellent
Signed title date verso
Provenance Private Collection Melbourne: Deautcher Menzies Melbourne 4/6/2003 Cat#162: Private collection Queensland: Jay Larter, granson of the artist
Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000
Lot 12
Richard Larter (1929-2014) Australia
Dribble 1994
Acrylic and gesso on canvas
182 x 105cm
Condition Excellent
Signed title date verso
Provenance Private Collection Melbourne
Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000
Lot 13 #
John Lendis (1950- ) Britain, Australia
Tristan and Iseult 2011
Oil on linen
100 x 120cm
Condition Excellent
Signed lower righ with monogram
Estimate: $6,000 - $7,000
Lot 14
Haughton Forrest (1826-1925) Britain Australia
Lighthouse Yacht (Ferry)
Oil on academy board
18.5 x 30.5cm (board) 33 x 47cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower left
Provenance Florence Smith of Huon Road, only surviving from collection of Forrests from 1967 Fire, by descent Pat and Geoff Smith South Hobart. Original frame
SOLD
The painting of the Iron Pot, Yacht,(Steamer) is a very rare Forrest in that it depicts a steam or modern vessel, alongside the yacht. Also that it shows the Iron Pot in its original colours.
We have also included some of the history relating to the Iron Pot, which suggests that the work may have been completed 1881-1885. See notes below.
Historical Reference. The Iron Pot was first named in 1816 by James Kelly. The original structure was built 1832, with a two storey house added 1885 to home Irishman James Parkinson and his large family. The structure stood on the island between 1885 and 1921. The light was automated in 1921.
We have received confirmation from the Maritime Museum of Tasmania that the painting shows the Iron Pot in its original colours, and that the green steamer was from the Union Shipping Co. of NZ Pty Ltd. This company was established 1875 and in 1891 bought out the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company.
Haughton Forrest first arrived Tasmania in 1876 and established residence on a land grant at Sorrell, moving to Hobart in 1881.
Lot 15
Stephen Walker (1927-2014) Australia
Weddell Seal and Pup c1995
Bronze marble base
15 x 42 x 25cm
Condition Excellent
Provenance Acquired from artists studio Campania
SOLD
Lot 16
John Olsen (1924-2011) Australia
Cicadas Singing, Earth Hold Suite 1978
Etching Ed AP II/VII
37 x 30cm (plate) 119 x 95cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed title edition below plate
Provenance Inscribed below pplate 'Ah! But the probing beak/ of the bird/ prizes you out/ Quick in the swift air/ it is the urgent flap of bird/ wing'
Estimate: $4,000 - $5,000
Lot 17
Anton Holzner (1935- ) Austria Australia
Cloaked Form 1989
Oil on canvas
157 x 126cm (stretcher)
Condition Good
Signed title date verso
Estimate: $14,000 - $16,000
Lot 18
Neil Haddon
Small Col/Small Arbour Ghost/Small Arbour 2006
High Gloss household paint on aluminium
60 x 60cm per panel
Condition Excellent
Signed title date verso
Exhibited Criterion Gallery, Hobart
Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500
Lot 19
Mike Parr (1945- ) Australia
Animal 2006
Giclee print Ed 1/3
65.5 x 31cm (sheet) 95 x 160cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Exhibited Criterion Gallery, Hobart
SOLD
Lot 20
Christopher Langton (1954- ) Australia
Square Chaser 2004
Polyurethane and pigment on PVC
94 x 94 x 13cm
Condition Exellent
Signed title date verso
Exhibited Criterion Gallery, Hobart
Estimate: $2,000 - $2,000
Lot 21
David Boyd ( 1924-2011) Australia Britain France
Reconciliation 2007
Etching x 3
120 x 93cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
An Australian Odessy 3 Etchings The Lytlewode Press Stoke on Trent
Estimate: $600 - $800
Lot 22
Luke Wagner (1962- ) Australia
Be My Sky 2006
Oil on linen
122 x 92cm (stretcher) 139 x 109cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed lower right,
Exhibited Telling Stories, Salamanca Gallery
SOLD
Lot 23
Robert Dickerson (1924-2015) Australia
Aleta
Lithograph Ed 10/50
72 x 53cm (sight) 108 x 87cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Sig ned in pencil lower right, title and edition lower left, centr
Estimate: $3,500 - $4,500
Lot 24
Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) Australia
Night Frolic 1929
Etching
29 x 25cm (plate) 61 x 51cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed title date in pencil below plate
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 25
Stephanie Tabram (1959- ) Australia
(Shoes) 2006
Acrylic on linen
82 x 81cm (stretcher) 96 x 96cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed and dated lower right
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
