ARTHUR BOYD
1920-1999

PROPERTY FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF SUSANNAH YORK, LONDON

ARTHUR BOYD

1920-1999
Sleeping Nude (1962)

oil and tempera on composition board
signed 'Arthur Boyd' lower right
160 x 182.7 cm

Provenance

Mr and Mrs Michael Wells (Susannah York), London, by 1964
Savill Galleries, Sydney, acquired from the above in 1988
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired in June 1998

Exhibited

Arthur Boyd Retrospective Exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery, London, June - July 1962, no. 146
Arthur Boyd Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 7 March - 5 April 1964, no. 52 (label verso)
Arthur Boyd Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings 1936-62, Museum of Modern Art and Design, Melbourne, 5-28 May 1964, no. 56
Three Australian Painters, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, 1965
1888-1988: A Century of Australian Painting, Savill Galleries, Sydney, 21 April - 21 May 1988, no. 45, illustrated

Literature

Franz Philipp, Arthur Boyd, Thames and Hudson, London, 1967, cat. 10:70, plate XXXIX, pp. 108, 109 (illustrated), 110, 127, 128, 264, 265
Janet McKenzie, Arthur Boyd: Art & Life, Thames and Hudson, London, 2000, pp. 109, 111