Albert Tucker 1914-1999

• Lot Sold $46,000 (Hammer Price)
• $55,200 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

ENCOUNTER - JOHN AND ELIZA 1971
synthetic polymer paint on composition board
signed and dated ‘Tucker 71’ lower right; signed, dated and inscribed ‘JOHN AND ELIZA 1971 / JOHN BATMAN AND ELIZA CALLAGHAN / ALBERT TUCKER’ verso
71.2 X 91.2CM 

PROVENANCE

Albert and Barbara Tucker, Melbourne
Australian, International and Aboriginal Fine Art, Bonhams & Goodman, Melbourne, 19 November 2007, lot 98, illustrated
Private Collection, Sydney

EXHIBITED

Albert Tucker, Skinner Galleries, Perth, January 1972, no. 17
Albert Tucker: A Retrospective, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 21 June - 12 August 1990, ‘John and Eliza’, illustrated

LITERATURE

James Mollison and Nicholas Bonham, Albert Tucker, Macmillan, Melbourne, 1982, p. 67 (illustrated), ‘John and Eliza’
James Mollison and Jan Minchin, Albert Tucker: A Retrospective, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1990, p. 67 (illustrated), ‘John and Eliza’