LIN ONUS
1948-1996

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, SYDNEY

LIN ONUS

1948-1996
Michael and I are Just Slipping Down to the Pub for a Minute (1992)

gouache on board
signed 'Lin Onus' lower left
50 x 38 cm

• Lot Sold $250,000 (Hammer Price)
• $306,818 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Lin Onus, Melbourne
Painters Gallery Australia, Sydney
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above 1992
Aboriginal Art, Sotheby’s Australia, Melbourne, 9 July 2001, lot 141, illustrated
Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above

Exhibited

(Possibly) Lin Onus: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Painters Gallery, Sydney, 1992
Urban Dingo: The Art and Life of Lin Onus 1948-1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 11 August – 30 October 2000; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 24 November 2000 – 4 March 2001; Melbourne Museum, Melbourne, 6 April – 29 July 2001, illustrated
Significant Tilt, Macquarie University Gallery, Sydney
Best in Show: Dogs in Australian Art, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, 9 April – 3 July 2016, illustrated

Literature

Margo Neale with contributions from Michael Eather, Gary Foley, Sylvia Klienert, Bernhard Lüthi, Ian McLean, Jo Onus and Triki Onus, Urban Dingo: The Art and Life of Lin Onus 1948-1996, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 2000, cover (illustrated), plate 43, pp. 20, 21, 58, 95 (illustrated), 137
Steven Miller, Dogs in Australian Art: A New History of Antipodean Creativity, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2012, pp. 84, 85 (illustrated), 187
Steven Miller, Dogs in Australian Art: A New History of Antipodean Creativity, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2016, pp. 90, 91 (illustrated), 213
Lisa Loader, Best in Show: Dogs in Australian Art, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, 2016, n.p. (illustrated)