ARTHUR BOYD
1920-1999

Savill: The Private and The Public
The Denis Savill Collection of Australian Art

ARTHUR BOYD

1920-1999
Cable Layer (1959)

oil on canvas on composition board
signed 'Arthur Boyd' lower right
71 x 90.5 cm

• Lot Sold $150,000 (Hammer Price)
• $183,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Australian Galleries, Melbourne (label verso)
Mr L. Gordon Darling, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 3 April 1959
Private Collection, Sydney
Fine Australian Paintings, Sotheby's Australia, Melbourne, 27 March 1988, lot 212, illustrated
Mr William J. Ross, Melbourne, acquired from the above
Lincraft, Melbourne
Modern and Contemporary Art, Sotheby's Australia, Sydney, 21 March 2005, lot 21, illustrated
Savill Galleries, Sydney (stock 610411) (label verso), acquired from the above

Exhibited

Arthur Boyd, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 14 April - 23 May 1959, no. 12, 180 gns (label verso)
Arthur Boyd Retrospective Exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery, London, June - July 1962, no. 79, 'The Cable Layer'
Arthur Boyd's Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2 April - 4 May 1970, no. 48A, 'The Cable Layer' (label verso)
Annual Collectors' Exhibition 2001, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 16 June - 14 July 2001, no. 58, 'The Cable Layer', illustrated
Bird Life in Australian Art, Savill Galleries, Melbourne, 22 July - 14 August 2005, no. 2, 'The Cable Layer', illustrated
Arthur Boyd: Revisited - Spanning 5 Decades, Savill Galleries, Sydney, 6 September 2005, no. 3, 'The Cable Layer', illustrated

Literature

Franz Philipp, Arthur Boyd, Thames and Hudson, London, 1967, cat.no. 8:46, 'The Cable Layer', pp. 144, 256