ARTHUR BOYD
1920-1999

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, SYDNEY

ARTHUR BOYD

1920-1999
Bride in a Cup (1959)

oil on muslin on composition board
signed 'Arthur Boyd' lower left
90.5 x 120 cm

• Lot Sold $675,000 (Hammer Price)
• $823,500 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Private Collection
Modern British Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture, Sotheby's, London, 19 July 1967, lot 190
Clune Galleries, Sydney, acquired from the above
Private Collection, acquired from the above in 1968
Australian Historical and Contemporary Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, Christie's, Melbourne, 3 October 1973, lot 503, illustrated
Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above
Savill Galleries, Sydney, acquired in 1986
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1987
Savill Galleries, Sydney, acquired from the above in 1994
Private Collection, Sydney

Literature

Geoffrey Smith, 'Catalogue Raisonne: Arthur Boyd's Central Australia Landscapes 1953-1960 and Bride Series 1954-1960', in Kendrah Morgan, Arthur Boyd: Brides, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2014, cat. no. 44, p. 69 (illustrated)