WILLIAM DOBELL
1899-1970

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

WILLIAM DOBELL

1899-1970
Temporary Bridge over Thames (1936)

oil on canvas on board
signed 'W DOBELL' lower left
40.6 x 50.6 cm

• Lot Sold $23,000 (Hammer Price)
• $28,060 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Captain Neil McEacharn, Sydney, by March 1942
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, gift from the above in 1954
Australian + International Fine Art, Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 10 March 2004, lot 51, 'A London Bridge (Hungerford Bridge)', illustrated
Mr John Williams, Sydney, acquired from the above
The John Williams Collection, Christie's Australia, Sydney, 20 September 2005, lot 5, 'A London Bridge (Hungerford Bridge)', illustrated
Savill Galleries, Sydney (stock 205133) (label verso), acquired from the above

Exhibited

Margaret Preston and William Dobell Loan Exhibition, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 March - 16 April 1942, no. 18
William Dobell, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, 1-26 August 1944, no. 145, 'Bridge over Thames, 1937'
Exposition Internationale d'Art Moderne, Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, 18 November - 28 December 1946, no. 6, 'Pont temporaire sur la Tamise'
Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art from the Collections of Captain Neil McEacharn and Peter Bellew, Esq. as exhibited at UNESCO, Paris, Exhibition Hall, Australia House, London, 9-30 April 1947, no. 7
The Art of William Dobell, National Gallery Society of Queensland, Brisbane, 11 August - September 1959, no. 7, 'London Bridge' (label verso)
William Dobell: Paintings from 1926-1964, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 July - 30 August 1964, no. 54, 'A London Bridge'
Australian Paintings: Traditional, Modern and Contemporary, Savill Galleries, Melbourne, 13 August - 17 September 2006, no. 53, 'A London Bridge (Hungerford Bridge)', illustrated

Literature

Contemporary Australian Art: Collected by Neil McEacharn, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1945, p. 18 (illustrated), 'London Bridge'
Sydney Ure Smith, The Art of William Dobell, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1946, p. 96 (illustrated), 'London Bridge'
James Gleeson, William Dobell, Thames and Hudson, London, 1964, cat. no. 43, plate 20, pp. 131 (illustrated), 190, 'A London Bridge'