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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, SYDNEY

ALBERT TUCKER
1914-1999

Image of Modern Evil 1972

$30,000–50,000

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© Albert & Barbara Tucker Foundation. Courtesy of Smith & Singer

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, SYDNEY

ALBERT TUCKER

1914-1999
Image of Modern Evil 1972

pastel on paper
signed and dated ‘Tucker 72’ lower right
70 x 50.5 cm

Provenance

Albert Tucker, Melbourne
Dennis Gowing, Melbourne
J.G.L. Investments Pty Ltd, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 27 May 1980
Important Australian Art from The J.G.L. Collection, Smith & Singer (trading as Sotheby’s Australia), Sydney, 16 May 2018, lot 110, illustrated
Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above

Exhibited

The Great Decades of Australian Art: Selected Masterpieces from the J.G.L. Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 21 November 1984 – 28 January 1985, ‘The Twin Image’, illustrated

Literature

Patrick McCaughey, The Great Decades of Australian Art: Selected Masterpieces from the J.G.L. Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1984, p. 83 (illustrated), ‘The Twin Image’

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Important Australian Art

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