JOHN PASSMORE
1904-1984
Figure Reclining on Beach
Estimate $40,000 – $60,000
JOHN PASSMORE
1904-1984
Figure Reclining on Beach
oil on composition board
72 x 94.5 cm
- Lot Sold $40,000 (Hammer Price)
- $48,800 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Private Collection Mr Harold Mertz, New York The University of Texas, Austin, United States of America, gift from the above in 1972 (label verso)
The Harold E Mertz Collection of Australian Art, Christie's Australia, Melbourne, 28 June 2000, lot 51, illustrated
Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above
Literature
The Mertz Collection of Contemporary Australian Painting, National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 10 March - 11 April 1966, no. 70
The Australian Painters 1964-66: Contemporary Australian Painting from the Mertz Collection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 10 March - 16 April 1967, no. 111, 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, 9 November - 19 December 1986
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