JOHN OLSEN
born 1928
Creek Bed, Hill End 1961
$35,000–55,000
JOHN OLSEN
born 1928
Creek Bed, Hill End 1961
oil on composition board
signed and dated 'John / Olsen '61' lower right
122 x 91.5 cm
- Lot Sold $35,000 (Hammer Price)
- $43,750 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Private Collection, Sydney
Geoff K. Gray, Sydney, September 1986
Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, acquired from the above
Private Collection, New South Wales, acquired from the above in 2002
Private Collection, Sydney
Exhibited
Modern Australian Paintings, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, 23 June - 7 July 1988, no. 31, illustrated
The Artists of Hill End: Art, Life and Landscape, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 July - 17 September 1995; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, 6 October - 19 November 1995; New England Regional Art Gallery, Armidale, 10 February - 31 March 1996; Broken Hill City Art Gallery, Broken Hill, 19 April - 26 May 1996; Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, 7 June - 29 July 1996, illustrated (label verso)
The Modern Landscape 1940-1965, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, 10 March - 3 May 1998, illustrated
Literature
Deborah Hart, John Olsen, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1991, plate 34, p. 66 (illustrated)
Gavin Wilson, The Artists of Hill End: Art, Life and Landscape, The Beagle Press and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1991, pp. 94 (illustrated), 95, 97
Paul Fox, The Modern Landscape 1940-1965, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, 1998, pp. 16, 17 (illustrated), 28
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