John Perceval
1923-2000

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE MRS DIANA GAZE, MELBOURNE

John Perceval

1923-2000
RIVER FOREST 1959

oil on composition board
signed and dated 'Perceval / '59' lower right; frame: original, Martin Smith, Melbourne
86 X 108.8CM

• Lot Sold $120,000 (Hammer Price)
• $146,400 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Mr and Mrs A.N. Davison, Melbourne
The Estate of the Late Mrs Diana Gaze, Melbourne

Exhibited

John Perceval, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 17 March 1959, no. 1, 150 gns
The Helena Rubinstein Travelling Art Scholarship, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 4-29 October 1961, no. 35, 'River Undergrowth'
John Perceval, Australian National University, Canberra, 14-24 July 1966, no. 47, 'River Undergrowth'
Collector's Collections, Melbourne Church of England Grammar School, South Yarra, 9-17 August 1969, no. 15, 'Landscape'
Spring Exhibition 1972: Recent Acquisitions, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 8-30 November 1972, no. 46, 'The Glade, (Eltham)', illustrated

Literature

Bernard Smith, 'The Antipodeans', Australia To-Day, Melbourne, 14 October 1959, p. 80 (illustrated), 'The River Forest'
Traudi Allen, John Perceval, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1992, pp. 160, 161