ARTHUR BOYD
1920-1999
Nebuchadnezzar Eating Grass with Lion's Head on Fire (1968)
ARTHUR BOYD
1920-1999
Nebuchadnezzar Eating Grass with Lion's Head on Fire (1968)
oil on canvas
signed 'Arthur Boyd' lower right
175 x 183 cm
Provenance
Arthur Boyd, London
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1970
Private Collection, Melbourne, by descent from the above
Fine Australian and International Paintings and Sculpture, Menzies, Sydney, 22 March 2012, lot 68, 'Lion's Head on Fire and Nebuchadnezzar Eating Grass', illustrated
Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 2014
Exhibited
Arthur Boyd: Recent Paintings, Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, 21 October - 8 November 1969, no. 1, illustrated
On long-term loan to Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla
Literature
T.S.R. Boase, Nebuchadnezzar: Arthur Boyd, Thames and Hudson, London, 1972, plate 36, pp. 94, 95 (illustrated), 'Lion's Head on Fire and Nebuchadnezzar Eating Grass'
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