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• Auction House:
  Smith & Singer
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  23 Aug 2023 ~ 6.30pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  60
• Lot Description:
  Ken Whisson
  (born 1927)
  Motor Cars and Drivers 1975
  oil on composition board; frame: original, Ken Whisson, Melbourne
  84 x 105.5 cm
  signed 'WHISSON' upper right; signed, dated and inscribed 'ABOUT MARCH 1975 / MOTOR CARS AND DRIVERS' verso
• Provenance:
  Ken Whisson, Melbourne; Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane; Private Collection; Niagara Galleries, Melbourne; Art Galleries Schubert, Surfers Paradise (label verso); Private Collection, Queensland; Australian & International Fine Art, Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 9 May 2007, lot 16, illustrated $72,000; Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above
• Exhibited:
  "Ken Whisson: Paintings and Drawings", Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane, 19 June - 15 July 1976, no. 4; "Ken Whisson: As If", Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 17 March - 15 July 2012; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 28 September - 25 November 2012, no. 82, illustrated
• References:
  Glenn Barkley & Lesley Harding, "Ken Whisson: As If", Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2012, pp. 84 (illustrated), 153 (illustrated)
• Estimate:
  A$45,000 - 65,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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