ARTHUR BOYD
1920-1999
Narre Warren, Victoria (1952)
$200,000–300,000
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION, MELBOURNE
ARTHUR BOYD
1920-1999
Narre Warren, Victoria (1952)
oil, tempera and resin on composition board
signed ‘Arthur Boyd’ lower right
77.5 x 102.8 cm
- Lot Sold $270,000 (Hammer Price)
- $331,364 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Arthur Boyd, Melbourne
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Richard Crebbin, Sydney, acquired from the above in 1952 for £47.5.0
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 26 July 1985
Exhibited
Spring Exhibition, Society of Artists, Department of Education Art Gallery, Sydney, 29 August – 15 September 1952, no. 14, 45 gns
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. 67, ‘Narrewarren Landscape’, illustrated
On long-term loan to Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, December 2005 – February 2025
Literature
'Society of Artists' Exhibition, The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 29 August 1952, p.2
Barry Pearce, Arthur Boyd Retrospective, The Beagle Press and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1993, p. 84 (illustrated), ‘Narrewarren Landscape c. 1951’
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