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• Auction House:
  Sotheby's Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  13 May 2014 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  11
• Lot Description:
  Ian Fairweather
  (1891-1974)
  Kneeling Figures (1951)
  gouache on cardboard; frame: original, maker unknown
  73 x 50.7 cm
  inscribed 'Beta' lower left; signed 'IF' lower right
• Provenance:
  Guelda Pyke, Melbourne; Dorothy Braund, Melbourne; The Estate of the Late Dorothy Braund, Melbourne
• Exhibited:
  Sydney Painting 1952, Victorian Artists Society, Melbourne, 11-21 June 1952, no. 17; Ian Fairweather: Paintings & Drawings 1927-1970, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, 3-24 October 1985, no. 24, 'Betel', illustrated
• References:
  Raft Artist's Work on Show', The News, Adelaide, 10 June 1952, p. 3 (illustrated); Laurie Thomas, 'Ian Fairweather', Art and Australia, Vol. 1, No. 1, May 1963, p. 35 (illustrated), 'Beta'; Peter Gant and William Nuttall (eds.), Ian Fairweather Paintings and Drawings 1927 - 1970, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, 1985, p. 22 (illustrated), 'Betel'; Mary Eagle, 'The Painter and the Raft', in Murray Bail (ed.), Fairweather, Art and Australia Books in association with the Queensland Art Gallery, Sydney
• Estimate:
  A$80,000 - 100,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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