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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  The Fred and Elinor Wrobel Collection | A Curated Salon
• Sale Date:
  23 Apr 2023 ~ 2pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  25
• Lot Description:
  John Richard Passmore
  (1904-1984)
  Damson Summer, c.1951-54
  oil on canvas
  51.0 x 64.0cm (20 1/16 x 25 3/16in).
• Provenance:
  The Passmore Trust, in the care of the Elinor Wrobel Collection, Sydney
• Exhibited:
  John Passmore Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 December 1984 - 10 February 1985, then touring; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 27 February - 7 April 1985, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 23 April - 30 June 1985, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales, 12 July - 18 August 1985, cat. 17 (label attached verso)
• References:
  Thomas Laurie, 200 Years of Australian Painting, Bay Books, Sydney, 1971, p. 72, p. 73 (illus.); John Passmore Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1984, cat. 17, p. 44 (illus.)
• Notes:
  'Life for me is during these days a delicious vacuum. It is a vacuum because whether one lies in the sun or on one's bunk or draws or makes a long comb over ideas, the days seem unreal and fantastic. They have the feeling of beating tom-toms, the beating away of time that is wound up with one's most primitive impulse - dreams have become realism at last and as much as I know it is all real. It is the beating of the dream that is what I know most... I hope for sun this afternoon. I will be in the grass; today I don't feel like work - too much revolves round and round in my head.' John Passmore, in a letter to Reg Jenkins, Scotland, late 1945
• Estimate:
  A$20,000 - 30,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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