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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 #:
  71
• Lot Description:
  Bernard Hall
  (1859-1935)
  (The Silk Robe), c.1910
  oil on canvas on board
  48.0 x 39.0cm (18 7/8 x 15 3/8in).
  signed upper left: 'B Hall'
• Provenance:
  Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 27 May 1981, lot 549, as Seated Nude; The Fred and Elinor Wrobel Collection, Sydney
• Exhibited:
  Nudes, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Sydney, 11th July – 26th August 1990, cat. 22, then touring to Australian regional galleries; A Century of Collecting 1902 - 2001, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 March - 28 April 2001
• References:
  Christopher Allen, 'All undressed and nowhere to go', The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 17 August 1990; Nick Waterlow, A Century of Collecting 1902-2001, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2001, p. 24
• Notes:
  'When there is no higher use for the figure, the artist tends to draw the portrait of the model, as Bernard Hall has done in a picture dated between 1910 and 1915. It is quite erotically charged: the woman sits in profile, but turns towards the artist and smiles as she drops a splendid gown from her shoulders. Her tightly closed legs are more coy than chaste, and a coloured ball on the ground adds an odd note of play.'
• Estimate:
  A$7,000 - 10,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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