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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION, MELBOURNE

ARTHUR BOYD
1920-1999

Sheep and Shed (With Hunter) (1950)

$350,000–550,000

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© Arthur Boyd/Copyright Agency, 2024

PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION, MELBOURNE

ARTHUR BOYD

1920-1999
Sheep and Shed (With Hunter) (1950)

oil, tempera and resin on composition board
signed ‘Arthur Boyd’ lower right
86.5 x 114.5 cm
frame: original, Martin Smith, Melbourne

  • Lot Sold $410,000 (Hammer Price)
  • $503,182 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Arthur Boyd, Melbourne
Guy Boyd, Melbourne, acquired from the above
Phyllis Boyd, Melbourne, acquired from the above
Fine Australian Paintings, Sotheby’s Australia, Melbourne, 23 August 1993, lot 113, illustrated
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above

Exhibited

The Sydney Group: Paintings, David Jones’ Art Gallery, Sydney, 1-15 October 1953, no. 9, ‘Deserted Shack, Wimmera’, 60 gns
Arthur Boyd Retrospective Exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery, London, June – July 1962, no. 51, ‘Sheep and Shed, 1951’
Arthur Boyd’s Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2 April – 4 May 1970, no. 28 (label verso)

Literature

Franz Philipp, Arthur Boyd, Thames and Hudson, London, 1967, cat. no. 5:36, pp. 62, 247

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