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• Auction House:
  Smith & Singer
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  21 Nov 2023 ~ 6.30pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  31
• Lot Description:
  Margaret Olley
  (1923-2011)
  Basket of Pears (1995)
  oil on composition board
  91.5 x 122 cm
  signed 'Olley' lower right
• Provenance:
  Margaret Olley, Sydney; Australian Galleries, Sydney (label verso); Private Collection, New Zealand, acquired from the above in 1995; Important Australian Art, Smith & Singer (trading as Sotheby's Australia), Sydney, 9 April 2019, lot 16, illustrated; Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above; Smith & Singer; Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above
• Exhibited:
  Margaret Olley, Australian Galleries, Sydney, 23 October - 22 November 1995, no. 1 (label verso); Margaret Olley, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 October 1996 - 5 January 1997; Brisbane City Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Brisbane, 17 January - 23 February 1997; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, 19 April - 8 June 1997, no. 74, illustrated
• References:
  Barry Pearce, Margaret Olley, The Beagle Press, Sydney, 1996, p. 118 (illustrated)
• Notes:
  We gratefully acknowledge the kind assistance of The Olley Project (courtesy of the Margaret Olley Art Trust and Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane) in cataloguing this work.
• Estimate:
  A$100,000 - 140,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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