MARGARET OLLEY
1923-2011
Basket of Oranges 1964
Estimate $50,000 – $60,000
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, SYDNEY
MARGARET OLLEY
1923-2011
Basket of Oranges 1964
oil on composition board
signed and dated 'Olley 64' lower right
61 x 91.5 cm
frame: original, maker unknown
- Lot Sold $55,000 (Hammer Price)
- $67,100 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
The Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane (label verso)
Mr and Mrs Leslie Atherton Gerard Boyce
Private Collection, by descent from the above
Summer Traditional, Shapiro Auctioneers, Sydney, 10 December 2001, lot 76, 'Untitled (Citrus Still Life)', illustrated
Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above
Exhibited
Paintings by Margaret Olley, The Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane, 27 October – 11 November 1964, no. 28, (cover) illustrated
Margaret Olley, Macquarie Galleries, Canberra, 15-19 April 1967, no. 4, 'Basket of Swato Oranges'
We gratefully acknowledge the kind assistance of The Olley Project (courtesy of the Margaret Olley Art Trust and Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane) in cataloguing this work.
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