John Perceval 1923-2000

BOY CRYING IN A CARLTON STREET (1943)
oil on composition board
signed and dated 'Perceval 44' lower left
72 X 40CM

PROVENANCE
John Perceval, Melbourne
Matthew Foster, Melbourne, until
Australian + International Fine Art, Joel Fine Art, Melbourne, 30 October 2007, lot 39, illustrated
Private Collection, Melbourne

EXHIBITED
The Formative Years 1940-45, Museum of Modern Art of Australia, Melbourne, 17 October - 14 November 1961, no. 2, ‘Boy Crying in the Street, 1943’
Rebels and Precursors: Aspects of Painting in Melbourne 1937-1947, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, August - September 1962, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, September - October 1962, no. 89, ‘1943’
John Perceval, Australian National University, Canberra, 14-24 July 1966, no. 6
John Perceval: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne, July - August 1984, no. 21
Angry Penguins and Realist Paintings in Melbourne in the 1940s, Hayward Gallery, London, 19 May - 14 August 1988, no. 129, illustrated
John Perceval: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 30 April - 12 July 1992, no. 29

LITERATURE
Traudi Allen, John Perceval, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1992, pp. 27, 148 Barrett Reid, Of Light and Dark: The Art of John Perceval, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1992, p. 14