ROBERT DICKERSON
born 1924
The Bottle (1954)
$80,000–100,000
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, AUCKLAND
ROBERT DICKERSON
born 1924
The Bottle (1954)
enamel paint on composition board
inscribed 'THE BOTTLE' verso
136.5 x 152 cm
- Lot Sold $150,000 (Hammer Price)
- $183,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
John and Sunday Reed, Melbourne, gift of the artist
Mr George Elliott, Auckland
By descent
Private Collection, Auckland
Exhibited
Seventeenth Annual Interstate Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society, Education Department's Art Gallery, Sydney, 20 October - 4 November 1955, no. 10, 60 gns
Inaugural Gift Exhibition, The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 1-16 June 1956, no. 25,'Trafalgar St.', illustrated, 20 gns
Literature
Jennifer Dickerson, Robert Dickerson: Against the Tide, Pandanus Press, Brisbane, 1994, pp. 50, 142, 'Girl in Trafalgar Street'
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