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IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN ART FROM THE SELWYN & RENATA LITTON COLLECTION

IAN FAIRWEATHER
1891-1974

Summer (1964)

$250,000–350,000

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© Ian Fairweather/DACS. Copyright Agency, 2023

IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN ART FROM THE SELWYN & RENATA LITTON COLLECTION

IAN FAIRWEATHER

1891-1974
Summer (1964)

synthetic polymer paint and gouache on cardboard on hardboard
signed 'Ian Fairweather' lower right; inscribed 'Summer' verso
72.1 x 101.5 cm
frame: original, maker unknown, Sydney

  • Lot Sold $270,000 (Hammer Price)
  • $331,364 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Ian Fairweather, Bribie Island
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Hazel Hughes, Sydney, acquired from the above in May 1965 for £210.0.0.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, gift from the above in memory of Norman Schureck in 1965
Fine Art Auction, Deutscher and Hackett, Sydney, 17 November 2010, lot 6, illustrated
Selwyn and Renata Litton, Sydney, acquired from the above

Exhibited

Other Recent Works by Ian Fairweather exhibited with The Drunken Buddha Series, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 12-24 May 1965, no. 20

Literature

Murray Bail, Ian Fairweather (rev. ed.), Murdoch Books, Sydney, 2009, cat. no. 206, plate 180, pp. 208 (illustrated), 210, 259

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Important Australian & International Art

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