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• Auction House:
  Smith & Singer
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian & International Art
• Sale Date:
  02 May 2023 ~ 6.30pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  12
• Lot Description:
  Howard Arkley
  (1951-1999)
  Psychedelic Head 1990
  synthetic polymer paint on canvas
  175 x 135 cm
• Provenance:
  Howard Arkley, Melbourne; Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne; Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1990; Fine Australian Paintings, Sotheby's Australia, Melbourne, 26 April 1992, lot 392, illustrated; Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above; Private Collection, Melbourne; Fine Australian Art, Sotheby's Australia, Melbourne, 4 May 2004, lot 32, illustrated; Selwyn and Renata Litton, Sydney, acquired from the above
• Notes:
  EXHIBITED: Howard Arkley: The Head Show, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, 19 October - 10 November 1990, no. 4; Howard Arkley, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, 18 October - 30 November 1991, no. 79, illustrated; Winter Exhibition 1999, Kozminsky Galleries, Melbourne, 1999, no. 47, illustrated; Howard Arkley, Metro5 Gallery, Melbourne, 6-24 February 2002, no. 11, illustrated; Howard Arkley, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square, Melbourne, 17 November 2006 - 25 February 2007; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 10 March - 6 May 2007; Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 6 July - 16 September 2007 (label verso); Howard Arkley and Friends, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, 5 December 2015 - 28 February 2016, illustrated (label verso). REFERENCES: Virginia Trioli, '"Head Show" Exhibition is a Myth You Can Take at Face Value', The Age, Melbourne, 26 October 1990, p. 16; Jenepher Duncan (ed.), Howard Arkley, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, 1991, pp. 31, 38 (illustrated), 42; Art + Text, Melbourne, No. 41, January 1992, cover (illustrated); Ashley Crawford and Ray Edgar, Spray: The Work of Howard Arkley, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1997, pp. 98, 99 (illustrated), 101; The Age, Melbourne, 26 July 1999, p. 5 (illustrated); Winter Exhibition 1999, Kozminsky Galleries, Melbourne, 1999, pp. 80, 81 (illustrated); Ashley Crawford and Ray Edgar, Spray: The Work of Howard Arkley (rev. ed.), Craftsman House, Sydney, 2001, pp. 98, 99 (illustrated), 101; David Thomas, Howard Arkley, Metro5 Gallery, Melbourne, 2002, n.p. (illustrated); Kate Hart, 1788-21st Century Australian Faces, Creative School Supply Co., Melbourne, 2003, (illustrated); Tim Jamieson, 'We Reveal Australia's Most Important Painting', The Herald Sun Weekend, Melbourne, 6 March 2004, (illustrated); John Gregory, Carnival in Suburbia: The Art of Howard Arkley, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2006, figure 6.29, pp. 1, 106, 107, 134, 177, 181 (illustrated), 182, 214; Jason Smith, Howard Arkley, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2006, p. 20 (illustrated); Anthony Fitzpatrick and Victoria Lynn, Howard Arkley and Friends, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, 2015, pp. 18, 19, 101 (illustrated), 143; John Gregory, Arkley Works: Howard Arkley Online Catalogue Raisonné, www.arkleyworks.com, (illustrated)
• Estimate:
  A$250,000 - 350,000
• Realised Price:
  *****
  

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• Category:
  Art

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