ARTHUR BOYD
1920-1999

PROPERTY FORMERLY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR NEIL CLEREHAN, MELBOURNE

ARTHUR BOYD

1920-1999
Moby Dick Hill (1949)

oil and tempera on composition board
signed 'Arthur Boyd' lower right; signed and inscribed 'Arthur Boyd / Moby Dick Hill' verso
81.6 x 122 cm
frame: original, maker unknown, Melbourne (courtesy of Savill Galleries, Sydney)

• Lot Sold $1,000,000 (Hammer Price)
• $1,220,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Dunlop Rubber Australia Ltd, Melbourne, acquired from the artist in 1950
Mr Neil Clerehan, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1954
Mrs Violet Dulieu, Melbourne
Mr Jack Kohane, Melbourne, acquired from the above in September 1970
Leonard Joel, Melbourne
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
Private Collection, acquired from the above in February 1990
Savill Galleries, Sydney, acquired from the above on 27 September 1991
Mr William Conn, Melbourne, acquired from the above in October 1994
Australian and International Art, Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 10 December 2008, lot 31, 'Moby Dick Hill, Near Frankston, Victoria', illustrated
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above
Australian & International Fine Art, Menzies, Sydney, 24 June 2010, lot 32, 'Moby Dick Hill, Near Frankston, Victoria' illustrated
Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above

Exhibited

Dunlop Australian Art Contest, Stanley Coe Gallery, Melbourne, 5-16 June 1950, no. 144, (winner of equal third award, \xA375)
An Exhibition of Prize-Winners & Purchases from the Dunlop Prize 1950, John Martin's Art Gallery, Adelaide, 14 September 1950, no. 5
Dunlop Australian Art Collection, Shepparton, 6 September 1951
Dunlop Australian Art Collection: 1950, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, October 1951, no. 5
Arthur Boyd: Works dating from 1937 to 1989, Savill Galleries, Sydney, 29 September – 30 October 1993, no. 4, illustrated (cover)
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. 59, 'Moby Dick Hill, near Frankston, Victoria', illustrated
The Modern Landscape 1940-1965, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, 10 March – 3 May 1998, illustrated

Literature

Dunlop Prize Winners Shown', The Age, Melbourne, 6 June 1950, p. 2
Arnold Shore, 'Dunlop Prize Won by Sidney Nolan', The Argus, Melbourne, 6 June 1950, p. 7
'Sydney Artist Wins Big Prize with Landscape', The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 6 June 1950, p. 1
'Dunlop Award Winners', The Examiner, Launceston, 7 June 1950, p. 8
'Art Contest Awards', The West Australian, Perth, 7 June 1950, p. 8
'\xA320 Award in Art Contest', The Sunday Times, Perth, 11 June 1950, p. 4
'E.E. Fuller, 'Dunlop Prize Paintings', The Advertiser, Adelaide, 16 September 1950, p. 5
Esmond George, 'These Pictures Won Prizes', The Mail, Adelaide, 16 September 1950, p. 30
'Mayor Opens Art Display', The Shepparton Advertiser, Shepparton, 7 September 1951, p. 8
James Gleeson, 'Dunlop Paintings on Exhibition', The Sun, Sydney, 11 October 1951, p. 9
'At Sydney Galleries', Le Courier Australien, Sydney, 12 October 1951, p. 5
'Dunlop Prize Contest', The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 12 October 1951, p. 2
Franz Philipp, Arthur Boyd, Thames and Hudson, London, 1967, cat. no. 5:24, 'Moby Dick Hill (near Frankston, Victoria; with Hunter in the Foreground)', pp. 60, 246
Look, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, November 1991, p. 10 (illustrated)
Art and Australia, Sydney, Vol. 29, No. 1, Spring 1991, p. 129 (illustrated)
Barry Pearce, Arthur Boyd Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1993, p. 76 (illustrated)
Australian Art Collector, Sydney, October – December 1997, p. 55 (illustrated
Paul Fox, 'Landscape as Art: Modernity and its Australian Histories', The Modern Landscape 1940-1965, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, 1998, pp. 11 (illustrated), 13, 26
Darleen Bungey, Arthur Boyd: A Life, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2008, pp. 247, 609, insert 54, 'Moby Dick Hill, near Frankston, Victoria'