ARTHUR BOYD
1920-1999
BRIDE RUNNING AWAY (1957)
Estimate $1,400,000 – $1,600,000
ARTHUR BOYD
1920-1999
BRIDE RUNNING AWAY (1957)
oil and tempera on composition board
signed 'Arthur Boyd' lower left
91.5 X 121.5CM
- Lot Sold $1,400,000 (Hammer Price)
- $1,680,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
BRIDE RUNNING AWAY (1957)
oil and tempera on composition board
signed 'Arthur Boyd' lower left
91.5 X 121.5CM
PROVENANCE
Mr Clive Brown, Melbourne
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Private Collection, Melbourne
EXHIBITED
Connoisseurs' Collection, Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University, Melbourne, 18 September - 3 October 1971, no. 28
Arthur Boyd: The Bride, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne, 8 November - 14 December 1986, no. 2
The Antipodeans: Another Chapter, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 17 October - 4 November 1988, Nolan Gallery, Lanyon, Australian Capital Territory, 12 November - 11 December 1988, no. 7, illustrated
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. 87, illustrated
LITERATURE
Franz Philipp, Arthur Boyd, Thames and Hudson, London, 1967, cat. 9:5, plate 81
Margaret Plant, 'Reading Boyd's Bride Thirty Years Later', Art and Australia, Ure Smith, Sydney, Winter 1987, p. 493 (illustrated)
Barry Pearce, Arthur Boyd Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1993, p. 102 (illustrated)
Christopher Allen, Art in Australia: From Colonisation to Postmodernism, Thames & Hudson, London, 1997, p. 151
Darleen Bungey, Arthur Boyd: A Life, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2007, p. 292
Provenance
Mr Clive Brown, Melbourne
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Private Collection, Melbourne
Exhibited
Connoisseurs' Collection, Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University, Melbourne, 18 September - 3 October 1971, no. 28
Arthur Boyd: The Bride, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne, 8 November - 14 December 1986, no. 2
The Antipodeans: Another Chapter, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 17 October - 4 November 1988, Nolan Gallery, Lanyon, Australian Capital Territory, 12 November - 11 December 1988, no. 7, illustrated
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. 87, illustrated
Literature
Franz Philipp, Arthur Boyd, Thames and Hudson, London, 1967, cat. 9:5, plate 81
Margaret Plant, 'Reading Boyd's Bride Thirty Years Later', Art and Australia, Ure Smith, Sydney, Winter 1987, p. 493 (illustrated)
Barry Pearce, Arthur Boyd Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1993, p. 102 (illustrated)
Christopher Allen, Art in Australia: From Colonisation to Postmodernism, Thames & Hudson, London, 1997, p. 151
Darleen Bungey, Arthur Boyd: A Life, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2007, p. 292