Painting Artworks in current stockroom

(alphabetically by artist surname)

Untitled

David Aspden (1935 - 2005)

Untitled

acrylic on canvas

152 x 122cm

Provenance

Private Collection, Melbourne;

Mossgreen, Sunday 11 October 2015, Lot 284;

Private collection, Sydney

The Road

Category: Australian Painting

Charles Blackman ((1928 - 2018))

The Road1966

oil on board

96 x 93cm

Earth V

Category: Australian Large Scale Works Modern Painting

John Coburn (1925-2006)

Earth V1982

oil on canvas

signed lower right

199 x 298.5 cm

Provenance

The Qantas Collection;

Sotheby’s, Important Australian Art, Sydney, 07/05/2007, Lot no. 13;

Private collection, Sydney

Portrait in the Room

Category: Australian Painting Traditional Women

Grace Cossington Smith (1892-1984)

Portrait in the Room1961

oil on board

signed and dated lower right

34 x 22cm

Provenance

Private collection, Sydney;

Barsby Auctions, Sydney 18/08/2018, Lot no. 364;

Private collection, Sydney

The Dancing Lesson

Category: Australian Modern Painting

Robert Dickerson (1924 x 2015)

The Dancing Lesson1950

oil on board

signed lower right

76 x 101cm

Provenance

William Mora Galleries, Melbourne;
The Hicks Family Collection, Melbourne;
Private collection, Sydney

Pittwater

Category: Australian Painting Traditional

Adrian Feint (1894 - 1971)

Pittwater1955

oil on board

29 x 24cm

Provenance

Private Collection

Port de Malabar

Category: International Painting Traditional

Charles Fouqueray (1869-1956)

Port de Malabarcirc

Oil on canvas

Essay

Charles Fouqueray was an exquisite colourist who worked in France and travelled extensively throughout the early part of the 20th century. Port Malabar and its companion piece Port du Canton reveal the artist’s fascination with the exotic artistic possibilities afforded by ‘the Orient’. He was a leading member of Academiedes Beaux Arts in Paris and also an official painter for the Navy Department. Fouqueray was awarded the 1909 Prix Rosa Bonheur and the First Prix Indochinein 1914.

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Port du Canton

Category: International Painting Traditional

Charles Fouqueray (1869-1956)

Port du Cantoncirc

Oil on canvas

Essay

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Crocodile

Category: Aboriginal Mixed Media Painting

Ginilgini ()

Crocodile1969

natural earth pigments on bark

28 x 55cm

Provenance

Painted at Oenpelli (Gunbalanya), Western Arnhem Land Church Missionary Society, Oenpelli (S142); The Giffen Collection, USA. The label verso reads: ‘Crocodile, by Ginilgini of Oenpelli’. Mossgreen, Australian & Oceanic Art, 22/7/14, Lot 317.

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Blue Mosaic

Category: Australian Painting Traditional

James Gleeson (1915-2008)

Blue Mosaicc. 1951

oil on gouache on board

signed lower left; bears title on the reverse

18.5 x 14 cm

Provenance

Aubery Gibson Collection, Melbourne; Private collection, Sydney; Sotheby’s Australia, Fine Australian and International Paintings, Sydney, 26 August 2003, Lot 245; Private collection, Sydney

Essay

This fine James Gleeson dates from the early 1950s, a period when the artist was at the height of his surrealist skills. Blue Mosaic was originally in a famous private Melbourne collection prior to it’s auction several decades ago by Sotheby’s.

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Garrimala

Category: Aboriginal Contemporary Painting Sculpture

Malaluba Gumana (1952 - 2020)

Garrimala2015

natural earth pigments on bark

129 x 38 cm

$6,750

Provenance

Buku Larrnggay Arts and Culture, Yirrkala NT;

Malaluba Gumana and Djirrirra Wunungmurra, Annandale Galleries Sydney, August 1 – Sept 12, 2015;

Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited

Malaluba Gumana’s cross-hatched water lily designs were created through her use of the marwat – a “hairbrush” that can create the finest of lines painted in natural ochres and pigments. A recipient of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award for bark painting in 2013, Gumana mainly painted her mother’s Gålpu clan designs of dhatam (waterlily), djari (rainbow), djayku (file-snake) and wititj (olive python). Her work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia and the Art Gallery of New South Wales as well as prominent private collections.

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Still Life with Flowers and Grapes

Category: Australian Painting Traditional

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Still Life with Flowers and Grapes1923-48

oil on canvas

70 x 83cm

Provenance

Private collection, NSW;

By descent to the current owner

Essay

Hans Heysen worked directly from the subject without preliminary sketches. Still Life with Flowers and Grapes is one of the finest still life paintings by the artist and reveals his breathtaking and incredibly realistic approach to painting.

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Mother and Sons

Category: Australian Painting Traditional

George Lambert (1873- 1930)

Mother and Sons1909

oil on canvas

signed lower left 'G.W. Lambert 1909'

61 x 51cm

Provenance

Sir James McGregor, Sydney;

Sir Charles Lloyd Jones and Lady Lloyd Jones, Sydney;

The Lloyd Jones Collection, James R. Lawson, Sydney, 9 April 1981, lot 706;

Mr Cecil Green, Sydney;

The Estate of the Late Mrs Marjory Green, Sydney;

Important Australian Art, Sotheby’s Australia, Melbourne, 17/05/2011, Lot No. 82;

Private collection, Sydney

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Nude in Archway (Banner of Blood)

Category: Modern Painting

Adrian Lawlor (1890 - 1969)

Nude in Archway (Banner of Blood)c. 1940

oil on composition board

signed lower and titled verso

55 x 44cm

Provenance

Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne;

Collection of the late Sir Warwick and Lady Fairfax, Sydney;

Bonhams, Fairwater, The Collection of Sir Warwick and Lady Fairfax, 22 September 2019, Lot 221;

Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited

Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, May 1940

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Untitled

Category: Australian Contemporary Large Scale Works Painting

Rhys Lee (b. 1975)

Untitled2006

acrylic and enamel on canvas

183 x 152cm

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Ceremony

Category: Aboriginal Mixed Media Painting

David Daymirringu Malangi (1927-1999)

Ceremony1968

ochre on bark

69 x 45cm

Provenance

Aboriginal and South Pacific Gallery, Surry Hills, exhibited 1995; Private collection, Sydney

Essay

Malangi’s bold style of painting was distinctive from his contemporaries. He used thick white lines, large areas of black, chocolate brown ochre and generous amounts of rarrk (crosshatching). He began bark painting as a young man, taught by his father and uncle to paint on bodies for ceremonies, on hollow logs for burials and later on stringybark. He was taught to paint the story of his creation ancestor, Gurrumurringu, and the story of the Djangkawu sisters. His style influenced several other central Arnhem Land painters.

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Ellerslie Racecourse, Auckland

Category: Australian Contemporary Painting

Noel McKenna (b. 1956)

Ellerslie Racecourse, Auckland2014

oil on plywood

Provenance

Darren Knight Gallery

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Totemic Frogs

Category: Aboriginal Painting

Robert Mirral ()

Totemic Frogs1970

natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

61 x 26cm

Provenance

Jim Davidson, Melbourne;

Private collection, Melbourne;

Deutscher and Hackett, Part 2: Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 2014, Lot 174;

Private collection, Sydney

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Autumn Flowers

Category: Australian Painting Traditional

John Nash (1893 - 1977)

Autumn Flowersc. 1933

oil on artist’s board

53.5 x 38.2cm

Provenance

Robert Chapman esqire, Debdnen Manor, Debden, Saffron Walden Essex, United Kingdom

Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited

New Grafton Gallery, London 1987

Browse and Darby Gallery, London 2015

Essay

A foundering member of the ‘London Group’ in 1914, John Nash was a British painter of still life and landscape, a wood engraver and illustrator, with a particular love for botanical works. He is revered for his capacity as a fine colourist and draftsman and was the younger brother of surrealist painter Paul Nash.

Nash’s most famous painting, Over the Top is in the collection of the Imperial War Museum and the artist’s exquisite Cornfield is in the collection of the Tate Gallery, London.

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Parwalla

Category: Aboriginal Large Scale Works Painting Women

Elizabeth Nyumi Nungurrayi (b. 1947)

Parwalla2008

synthetic polymer paint on linen

inscribed verso: artist's name, size and Warlayirti Artists cat. 134/08

180 x 120cm

$22,500

Provenance

Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills;

Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne;

Private collection, Melbourne;

Deutscher and Hackett, Part 2: Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne 26 November 2014, Lot 104;

Private collection, Sydney

Essay

This painting depicts Elizabeth Nyumi’s father’s country, Parwalla. It is a large area that fills with water after the wet season and consequently produces an abundance of bush foods. The painting shows a variety of native foods including bush raisin, bush tomato and seeds. Women, shown as U shapes, with their digging sticks and coolamons gathering the foods, are also depicted.

Parwalla is a characteristic example of the work of Nyumi, one of the most-renowned, contemporary female Aboriginal artists. In her maturity as a painter Nyumi initially worked with a thick brush, covering the canvas in emanating lines in muted tones. The white, so pleasing and prevalent in her work, represent spinifex grass. She is an active member in the Balgo community, being a strong law and culture woman.

In 2004 Nyumi was selected for inclusion in the Biennale of Sydney. Her works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Artbank, Sydney; the Laverty Collection, Sydney; and the Holmes à Court Collection, Perth.

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The Road to Hill End

Category: Australian Contemporary Painting

John Olsen (b. 1928)

The Road to Hill End2005

oil on canvas

signed and dated lower left and verso

35.5 x 35.5cm

Provenance

Private collection, Sydney

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Untitled

Category: Modern Painting

John Peart (1945-2013)

Untitled

oil on board

22.5 x 25cm

Provenance

The Collection of Frank Watters, Sydney

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SL388

Category: Contemporary Painting Women

Jude Rae (b. 1956)

SL3882018

oil on linen

signed, dated and inscribed lower left

71 x 81cm

$38,000

Provenance

Philip Bacon Galleries, Queensland;
Private collection, Sydney

Essay

Ordinary industrial and household objects are revisited and given new life in Jude Rae’s elegant compositions, achieving a balance between representation and abstraction. In SL388, the artist characteristically challenges the viewer to reassess notions of beauty in these skilfully arranged and exquisitely painted utilitarian objects.

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Yellow Gibbon

Category: Australian Large Scale Works Modern Painting

David Rankin (b. 1946)

Yellow Gibbon1972

acrylic on canvas

Exhibited

David Rankin, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, 1972; Charles Nodrum Gallery, 2011; Private Collection,Melbourne

Essay

Note: the ‘Gibbon’ is Gibbon’s Beach, Bundeena, south of Port Hacking, where the artist stayed in the early 1970s.

David Rankin is a New York based Australian artist. Born in Plymouth, England in 1946, he emigrated to Australia in 1948. Interested in the merging of western, eastern and indigenous art, Rankin sees the role of Australian artists as one of authentically and truthfully absorbing those nearby cultures and spiritual beliefs, and integrating these elements into individual works. Throughout the past thirty years, Rankin has held over 100 one-person exhibitions worldwide; he is represented in many of the world’s leading collections and museums.

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Bright sea at Cape Byron

Category: Australian Painting

William Robinson (b. 1936)

Bright sea at Cape Byron

oil on linen

100 - 162cm

Provenance

Collection of the artist;
Private collection, Queensland

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Flowers on a Table

Category: Australian Painting Women

Susan Rothwell ()

Flowers on a Table

oil on canvas

signed lower right

34.5 x 40cm

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Nude

Category: Australian Painting Women

Susan Rothwell ()

Nude

oil on canvas

signed lower right

40 x 34.5cm

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View of Sydney Harbour from Cockatoo Island

Category: Australian Painting

Susan Rothwell ()

View of Sydney Harbour from Cockatoo Island

oil on canvas

signed lower right

60 x 80cm

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On the Air

Category: Australian Contemporary Large Scale Works Painting

Tim Storrier (b. 1949)

On the Air2016

acrylic on canvas

signed, titled and dated on reverse

107 x 244cm

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Canning Stock Route, Long Long Way

Category: Aboriginal Modern Painting

Rover Thomas (1926 - 1998)

Canning Stock Route, Long Long Way1993

ochres on canvas

79.5 x 99.5cm

Essay

One of the first two Indigenous artists to represent Australia at the 1990 Venice Biennale, Rover Thomas’ works sparked a greater appreciation of Aboriginal art, both nationally and internationally.

A desert man, the story of his life is interwoven with that of the Canning Stock Route. Thomas was born in the 1920s and raised in the Country around its middle stretches. At an early age he was picked up by a drover, Wally Dowling, and taken north to Billiluna and the Kimberley. He became a stockman himself, and eventually married and settled at Turkey Creek. There, in the 1970s, he pioneered the East Kimberley school of ochre painting on canvas.

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Mallee Fowl Story

Category: Aboriginal Painting

Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri (c. 1926 - 1998)

Mallee Fowl Story

ochres on canvas

102 x 52cm

Provenance

Sotheby’s Australia, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 24/07/2007, Lot No. 132

Private collection, Sydney

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Man at Ilpitirri

Category: Aboriginal Modern Painting

Billy Stockman Tjapljarri (1927 - 2015)

Man at Ilpitirri1975

Acrylic on canvas

171 x 201

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Goanna Story

Category: Aboriginal Modern Painting

Charlie Tararu Tjungarrayi ()

Goanna Story1972

synthetic polymer paint and natural earth pigments on composition board

Provenance

Sotheby’s 20 July 2009, Lot 63

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TP582

Category: Australian Modern Painting

Tony Tuckson (1921-1973)

TP582

oil on cardboard

42 x 28cm

Provenance

Watters Gallery, Sydney

The Collection of Frank Watters, Sydney (Watters Gallery 14/25/002 on verso)

Exhibited

Tony Tuckson Figurative Paintings, Watters Gallery, 30 September – 18 October, 2014, Cat no. 2

Essay

Tuckson undertook his final year of study in 1949 at East Sydney Technical College under the Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme for exservicemen. The figurative works from this period, through to the mid- 1950s, are among Tuckson’s most accomplished – they are raw, painterly and powerful. Each is masterfully constructed. While the influences of Picasso, Modigliani and Klee are apparent, the artist cited his two most inspiring mentors at the time to be Grace Crowley and Ralph Balson. Both these artists taught him briefly with their weekly classes in abstraction at East Sydney.

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Sapling Diptych

Category: Australian Modern Painting

Fred Williams (1927-1982)

Sapling Diptych1969

oil on canvas

76 x 77.4cm

Essay

During 1969-1970 Fred Williams had three major shows: a 1969 exhibition of new paintings that included ‘the strikingly innovative works’ of that year at Rudy Komon Gallery in Sydney; a further exhibition of selected paintings at Skinner Galleries, Perth, 1970 and perhaps most importantly the artist’s first museum exhibition, Heroic Landscape at the National Gallery of Victoria, 1970.¹ This was the first time a major Fred Williams survey had been held in a state gallery and his paintings were exhibited alongside those of the eminent impressionist, Arthur Streeton.

Sapling Diptych was featured in an exhibition of works from the estate of Fred Williams at Philip Bacon Galeries in 2000.

1. Patrick McCaughey, Fred Williams, Bay Books, Sydney, 1980, p. 210