CLIFTON PUGH
1924-1990

Savill: The Private and The Public
The Denis Savill Collection of Australian Art

CLIFTON PUGH

1924-1990
Marking the Bulls 1964

oil on composition board
signed and dated 'Clifton / 64' lower right
122 x 90.5 cm

• Lot Sold $19,000 (Hammer Price)
• $23,180 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Mr Harold E. Mertz, United States of America
The University of Texas, Austin, gift from the above
The Harold E. Mertz Collection of Australian Art, Christie's Australia, Melbourne, 28 June 2000, lot 129, illustrated
Savill Galleries, Sydney (stock 200208) (label verso), acquired from the above

Exhibited

The Mertz Collection of Contemporary Australian Painting, National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 10-26 March 1966, no. 76
The Australian Painters 1964-1966: Contemporary Australian Painting from the Mertz Collection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 10 March - 16 April 1967, no. 31, illustrated
Legends and Landscape in Australian Art: A Selection of Paintings from the Harold E. Mertz Collection at the Archer M Huntington Art Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas, 9 November - 19 December 1986
Australia's Most Wanted, Savill Galleries, Melbourne, 6 March - 3 April 2005, no. 40, illustrated
Australian Painters: Summer 2009, Savill Galleries, Sydney, 17 November - 15 December 2009, no. 16, illustrated
20 Major Australian Artists, Savill Galleries, Sydney, 25 March - 17 April 2014, no. 21, illustrated
Breaking History: Denis Savill, Savill Galleries, Sydney, 21 October - 13 November 2015, no. 19