WILLIAM DOBELL
1899-1970

PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUSIHED PRIVATE COLLECTION, MELBOURNE

WILLIAM DOBELL

1899-1970
Sketch for Saddle-My-Nag (1937)

oil on wood
signed 'W DOBELL' lower right
15.2 x 36.7 cm

• Lot Sold $26,000 (Hammer Price)
• $31,720 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Mrs Gwen Morton Spencer, Sydney
Private Collection, Sydney
Private Collection, Melbourne, by descent from the above

Exhibited

William Dobell, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, 1-26 August 1944, no. 34, 'Study for "Saddle My Nag" 1936'
The Art of William Dobell, National Gallery Society of Queensland, Brisbane, 11 August - September 1959, no. 13, 'Saddle-my-nag'
Paintings and Drawings by William Dobell, John Martin & Co. Ltd, Adelaide, March 1960, no. 50, 'Saddle my nag' (label verso)
William Dobell, War Memorial Gallery of Fine Arts, The University of Sydney, Sydney, 12-27 April 1960, no. 10, 'Saddle my nag' (label verso)
First Art Dealer's Fair, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney, 27 June 1962, no. 36, 'Saddle-my-nag', 2,500 gns
William Dobell: Paintings from 1926-1964, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 July - 30 August 1964, no. 60, illustrated (label verso)
Contemporary Australian Paintings from a Private Collection, Newcastle City Art Gallery, Newcastle, 4-30 September 1964, no. 11
William Dobell: An Exhibition of Selected Works, Commonwealth Festival of Arts, Qantas Gallery, London, 14 September - 16 October 1965, no. 7

Literature

Sydney Ure Smith (ed.), The Art of William Dobell, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1946, p. 92 (illustrated)
James Gleeson, William Dobell, Thames and Hudson, London, 1964, cat. no. 67, p. 191