Arthur Boyd 1920-1999

• Lot Sold $800,000 (Hammer Price)
• $960,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

LOVERS BY A CREEK (1960)
oil and tempera on composition board
signed ‘Arthur Boyd’ lower right
122 X 91.5CM 

PROVENANCE

Zwemmer Gallery, London
Mr F.J. Lyons, London
Private Collection, Melbourne
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
Private Collection, Melbourne
Australian and European Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Christie’s, Melbourne, 26 August 1997, lot 66, illustrated
Private Collection, Perth

EXHIBITED

Paintings: Arthur Boyd, Zwemmer Gallery, London, 19 July - 20 August 1960, no. 12
Arthur Boyd Retrospective Exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery, London,
June - July 1962, no. 92
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 1-14 September 1982, no. 85, ‘Bride and Groom by Creek’, illustrated

LITERATURE

Franz Philipp, Arthur Boyd, Thames and Hudson, London, 1967, cat. 10:5,  pp. 94, 96, 98, 260
Ursula Hoff, The Art of Arthur Boyd, Andre Deutsch, London, 1986, pp. 52-53, 136, 243, plate 74 (illustrated)