Clifton Pugh 1924-1990

• Lot Sold $50,000 (Hammer Price)
• $60,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

A FERAL CAT 1957
oil on composition board
signed and dated 'Clifton / '57 / June' lower right; signed and inscribed 'A FERAL CAT / CLIFTON PUGH / COTTLES BRIDGE / VICTORIA' verso
91 X 137CM

PROVENANCE
Purchased by the Museum of Modern Art of Australia, Melbourne, in 1959
Mrs Douglas Carnegie, Melbourne, until
Australian Painting, Christie's, Melbourne, 14 March 1972, lot 56, illustrated
Mr Allen D. Christensen, California
Mrs Carmen Christensen, California, until
Gould Galleries, Melbourne and Sydney (stock 12,086)
Private Collection, Victoria
Australian, International & Aboriginal Fine Art, Bonhams & Goodman, Melbourne, 23 April 2007, lot 636, illustrated
Private Collection, Melbourne

EXHIBITED
Clifton Pugh, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, March 1959, no. 18, 80 gns Antipodeans, Victorian Artists’ Society, Melbourne, 4-15 August 1959, no. 65, 90 gns
The Antipodeans: Another Chapter, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 17 October - 4 November 1988, Nolan Gallery, Lanyon, Australian Capital Territory, 12 November - 11 December 1988, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 22 December 1988 - 27 January 1989, no. 34, illustrated
Clifton Pugh: The Landscape, War and Portrait Images 1945-1977, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, Victoria, 12 November - 3 December 1997, no. 11
19th & 20th Century Australian Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts 1998, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 1-27 June 1998, no. 64, illustrated
Masterpieces of Modern Australian Painting from Private Melbourne Collections, Gould Galleries, Melbourne, 28 July - 8 August 1999

LITERATURE
‘The Antipodeans’, Modern Art News, Melbourne, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1959, p. 10 (illustrated)
Noel Macainsh, Clifton Pugh, Georgian House, Melbourne, 1962, p. 13
John Reed, New Painting 1952-62, Longmans, Melbourne, 1963, p. 34 (illustrated)
Traudi Allen, Clifton Pugh: Patterns of a Lifetime, Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, 1981, p. 58 (illustrated)