IAN FAIRWEATHER
1891-1974

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE DOROTHY BRAUND, MELBOURNE

IAN FAIRWEATHER

1891-1974
Kneeling Figures (1951)

gouache on cardboard
inscribed 'Beta' lower left; signed 'IF' lower right
frame: original, maker unknown
73 x 50.7 cm

• Lot Sold $95,000 (Hammer Price)
• $115,900 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Guelda Pyke, Melbourne
Dorothy Braund, Melbourne
The Estate of the Late Dorothy Braund, Melbourne

Exhibited

Sydney Painting 1952, Victorian Artists Society, Melbourne, 11-21 June 1952, no. 17
Ian Fairweather: Paintings & Drawings 1927-1970, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, 3-24 October 1985, no. 24, 'Betel', illustrated

Literature

Raft Artist's Work on Show', The News, Adelaide, 10 June 1952, p. 3 (illustrated)
Laurie Thomas, 'Ian Fairweather', Art and Australia, Vol. 1, No. 1, May 1963, p. 35 (illustrated), 'Beta'
Peter Gant and William Nuttall (eds.), Ian Fairweather Paintings and Drawings 1927 - 1970, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, 1985, p. 22 (illustrated), 'Betel'
Mary Eagle, 'The Painter and the Raft', in Murray Bail (ed.), Fairweather, Art and Australia Books in association with the Queensland Art Gallery, Sydney, 1994, pp. 30 (illustrated), 31, 'Beta'
Murray Bail, Fairweather, Murdoch Books, 2008, pp. 100 (illustrated), 101 (illustrated), 252, 'Beta'