Nora Heysen
1911-2003

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, MELBOURNE

Nora Heysen

1911-2003
THE FLOWER SHIP 1944-1945

oil on canvas
signed and dated 'Nora Heysen / 1945' lower left
56.5 X 66CM

• Lot Sold $40,000 (Hammer Price)
• $48,800 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Private Collection, South Australia
Australian & International Art, Mossgreen Auctions, Melbourne, 7 June 2010, lot 363, illustrated
Private Collection, Melbourne

Exhibited

Nora Heysen, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 25 October 2000 - 28 January 2001, illustrated
Nora Heysen: Light and Life, Carrick Hill, Adelaide, 1 April - 28 June 2009, illustrated

Literature

Lou Klepac, Nora Heysen, The Beagle Press, Sydney, 1989, pp. 14, 59 (illustrated), 79
Lou Klepac, Nora Heysen, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 2000, pp. 34, 35 (illustrated), 51
Jane Hylton, Nora Heysen: Light and Life, Wakefield Press, South Australia, 2009, pp. 37-38, 75 (illustrated)
Catherine Speck (ed.), Heysen to Heysen: Selected Letters of Hans Heysen and Nora Heysen, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 2011, p. 150