JOHN PERCEVAL
1923-2000

PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION, MELBOURNE

JOHN PERCEVAL

1923-2000
Old Ships at Williamstown (1959)

oil on canvas on composition board
signed ‘Perceval’ lower left
87 x 103.5 cm

• Lot Sold $550,000 (Hammer Price)
• $675,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

John Perceval, Melbourne
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Miss C.I. Black, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 17 March 1959
The Estate of the late Miss C.I. Black, Melbourne
Fine Australian Paintings, Books, Sculpture & Photographs, Sotheby’s Australia, Melbourne, 24 July 1988, lot 408, ‘Boats at Williamstown’, illustrated
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above
Important Modern Works of Art from a Private Collection, Melbourne, Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 8 December 2021, lot 2, illustrated
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above

Exhibited

John Perceval, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 17 March 1959, no. 17, 125 gns
John Perceval: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne, 10 July – 26 August 1984, no. 52
John Perceval: A Retrospective, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 30 April – 12 July 1992; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 August – 20 September 1992, no. 67, illustrated (label verso)

Literature

Traudi Allen, John Perceval, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1992, p. 160
Barrett Reid, Of Dark and Light: The Art of John Perceval, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1992, p. 55 (illustrated)