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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 #:
  53
• Lot Description:
  John Richard Passmore
  (1904-1984)
  Bathers, c.1930
  oil on canvas on board
  23.0 x 38.0cm (9 1/16 x 14 15/16in).
  initialled lower right: 'JP'
• Provenance:
  The Fred and Elinor Wrobel Collection, Sydney
• Notes:
  'My husband, Fred and I had been seriously collecting Australian art from 1960. During the early 1970s, we had both observed a person unknown to us, John Passmore, at art auctions, who was oblivious to everything except the paintings. I had a premonition that if I spoke to this stranger, my life would change forever. When he did finally come to our house, unannounced, to view a painting, my life did change forever. Passmore spent long hours viewing my Sydney exhibitions. Our friendship deepened. Early in the 1980s, with his health failing, he told me he intended to destroy all his paintings. I persuaded him to consent to a retrospective at the Art Gallery of NSW and to allow me to record his memoirs on tape. His response was, 'I didn't realise how passionate you were about my art. From now on they're going to be your responsibility!' Before he died in 1984, he made a will giving me copyright of his intellectual property; formed the Passmore Trust with me as the sole trustee; and allowed me to record his memoirs. In 2003 my husband and I established the John Passmore Museum in an 1874 heritage building in Woolloomooloo.' - Elinor Wrobel, Jessie Street National Women's Library, vol 18, no 4, November 2007, p. 6
• Estimate:
  A$6,000 - 9,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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