Traditional Artworks in current stockroom

(alphabetically by artist surname)

Autumn Gums

Harold Cazneaux (1878 - 1953)

Autumn Gums

vintage silver gelatin photograph

11 x 15cm

Old Horse Punt “Warrane”

Category: Australian Photography Traditional

Harold Cazneaux (1878 - 1953)

Old Horse Punt “Warrane”c. 1912

vintage silver gelatin photograph

10 x 19cm

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

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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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Waterloo Bridge, London

Category: Australian Traditional Works on Paper

Lloyd Rees (1895-1988)

Waterloo Bridge, London1924

pencil on paper

Provenance

Masterpiece Fine Art Gallery, Hobart; Private Collection, Sydney; Mossgreen, Fine Australian and International Art, 21 November, 2016, Lot 129

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Tiwi Figure from Bathurst and Melville Islands

Category: Sculpture Traditional

Ben Tipungwuti (1916 - 1979)

Tiwi Figure from Bathurst and Melville Islands

natural earth pigments on carved ironwood

65.5cm

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Kunapipi Ceremony

Category: Aboriginal Sculpture Traditional

Yirawala (1897-1976)

Kunapipi Ceremonyc. 1965

ochre on bark

71 x 25cm

Provenance

Purchased from Sandra Holmes, Collection of Leo Kelly, Sydney; Sotheby’s June 2000, Lot 284

Essay

One of the most celebrated Australian Aboriginal artists of the twentieth century,Yirawala was a seminal figure in the contemporary bark painting movement. He was a man of high ritual authority who worked tirelessly to communicate the value of his culture to outside audiences through his art. Yirawala was the most influential of the artists in the Croker Island ‘school’ of bark painting in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a Kuninjkuritual leader with access to a vast amount of religious iconography, whose bark paintings featured the shimmering rarrk (cross-hatching) patterns of the Mardayin ceremony. With their origins in ceremonial body painting, rarrk designs are associated with the power of the Ancestor beings. Yirawala’s style of painting, which included these designs to dazzling effect, influenced many of the best-known bark painters working today.