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• Auction House:
  Cordy's
• Sale Name:
  October 2015 Antique and Art Auction
• Sale Date:
  06 Oct 2015 ~ 10am (NZ time) (Lots 1 - 331)
  06 Oct 2015 ~ 5pm (NZ time) (Lots 340 - 755)
• Lot #:
  691
• Lot Description:
  Roy Dalgarno - self-portrait
  charcoal sketch, signed and dated ‘34. Some attention required. 400 x 300.
• Provenance:
  Ex. the estate of the artist Roy Dalgarno
• Notes:
  Dalgarno (1910-2001) has been described as a socialist Bohemian realist painter. Perhaps sparked by his experience of the Depression, he rarely strayed from his subject matter, ordinary people at work or play, wharves and ships, the factory floor, down the mines and the heat of the furnace room, toiling, grafting, showing his subjects with dignity and strength. Born in Melbourne, Australia in 1910. He attended National Gallery Art School from 1926 to 1930 where he met social realists Noel Counihan and Herbert McClintock and rubbed shoulders with Sydney Nolan and Russell Drysdale. He then attended the Academy of Art under Dattilo Rubbo from 1930 to 1932. During the Second World War he was part of the camouflage unit; men enlisted to disguise airfields from the Japanese, a posting that allowed him to take his sketch books to places in Northern Territory rarely visited by white Australians. He co-founded the Studio of Realist Art (SORA) in Sydney in 1946. From 1947 to 1949 he worked as lecturer at the East Sydney Technical College, then travelled to study in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts from 1951 and 1953. From there moving to India, where he lived for nearly 20 years, while working for the advertising agency Lintas. He also co-founded Editions Anarkali, publisher of fine arts in Bombay and was employed as a visiting lecturer in lithography at the School of Fine Arts. In 1975 he moved to Auckland, New Zealand, where he worked as a lecturer in drawing and composition at the Auckland Society of Arts and continued painting well into his 70’s, he described the discipline of drawing and painting as “sheer pleasure.’
• Estimate:
  NZ$110 - 110
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Going For A Song

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