Ian Fairweather
1891-1974

Ian Fairweather

1891-1974
Landscape (1954)

gouache on cardboard
signed with initials 'IF' lower right
37 X 51.5CM

• Lot Sold $50,000 (Hammer Price)
• $60,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

guoache on cardboard
signed with initials 'IF' lower right
37 X 51.5CM

Provenance:
Victorian Artists Society, Melbourne
Acquired from the above by Guelda Pyke, Melbourne, 1955
Polly Pyke, Melbourne
Private Collection, Melbourne
Australian, International and Contemporary Paintings, Christies, Sydney, 23 August, 2004, lot 1
Private Collection, South Australia

Exhibited:
Ian Fairweather, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 4-16 May 1955, no. 12, 17 gns
Sydney Painting 1955, Victorian Artists Society, Melbourne, 31 May - 11 June 1955, no. 14, ‘Landscape', 18gns
Ian Fairweather: Paintings & Drawings 1927-1970, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, 3-24 October 1985, no. 26, illustrated; Fairweather, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1 October - 27 November 1994
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 16 December 1994 - 19 February 1995
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 March - 7 May 1995, no. 19 illustrated

Literature:
Art and Australia, Ure Smith, Sydney, May 1963, p. 36 (illustrated), ‘Hillside China c.1949'
Robert Hughes, The Art of Australia, Penguin Books, Melbourne, 1970, p. 290 (illustrated), ‘Hillside China c.1949'
Murray Bail, Ian Fairweather, Bay Books, Sydney, 1981, cat. 114, illustrated
Murray Bail, Ian Fairweather, Murdoch Books, Sydney, 2009, cat. 111, Illustrated

Provenance

Victorian Artists Society, Melbourne
Acquired from the above by Guelda Pyke, Melbourne, 1955
Polly Pyke, Melbourne
Private Collection, Melbourne
Australian, International and Contemporary Paintings, Christies, Sydney, 23 August 2004, lot 1
Private Collection, South Australia

Exhibited

Sydney Painting 1955, Victorian Artists Society, Melbourne, 31 May - 11 June 1955, uncatalogued