Arthur Boyd 1920-1999
Arthur Boyd 1920-1999Estimate $1,000,000 – $1,200,000
- Lot Sold $1,000,000 (Hammer Price)
- $1,200,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
DRY CREEK BED, ALICE SPRINGS (1953-1954)
oil, tempera and resin on composition board
signed ‘Arthur Boyd’ lower left
91.5 X 122CM
PROVENANCE
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Mr A. Bruce Wenzel, Melbourne
By descent
Private Collection, Melbourne
EXHIBITED
Catalogue of Works in the Galleries, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, November 1956, no. 70, ‘Dry Creek Bed, Alice Springs’, 175 gns
Catalogue of Works, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, December 1956, no. 70, ‘Dry Creek Bed, Alice Springs’, 175 gns
Arthur Boyd Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 December 1993 - 6 March 1994, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 20 March - 23 May 1994, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 9 June - 21 August 1994, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 22 September - 20 November 1994, no. 70, ‘Dry Creek Bed near Alice Springs with Aboriginal Children’, illustrated
The Sound of the Sky, Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 7 April – 16 July 2006, ‘Dry Creek Bed near Alice Springs with Aboriginal Children’, illustrated
LITERATURE
Franz Philipp, Arthur Boyd, Thames and Hudson, London, 1967, cat. 5:65, ‘Dry Creek Bed near Alice Springs, with Aboriginal Children’, pp. 72, 143, 249
Barry Pearce, Arthur Boyd Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1993, p. 87 (illustrated), ‘Dry Creek Bed near Alice Springs with Aboriginal Children’
Deana Murray, The Sound of the Sky, Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory in association with Charles Darwin University Press, Darwin, 2006, p. 100 (illustrated), ‘Dry Creek Bed near Alice Springs with Aboriginal Children’