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• Auction House:
  Sotheby's Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  13 May 2014 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  41
• Lot Description:
  Godfrey Miller
  (1893-1964)
  Summer (1957-1959)
  oil, pen and ink on canvas
  64.3 x 82.2 cm
  signed 'Godfrey Miller' lower right
• Provenance:
  Macquarie Galleries, Sydney; Mr and Mrs George Rodan, Sydney; By descent; Private Collection, Sydney; Important Australian + International Art, Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 30 November 2011, lot 3, illustrated; Private Collection, New South Wales
• Exhibited:
  (Possibly) Godfrey Miller, The Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 7-19 July 1957, no. 3; Godfrey Miller Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 10 June - 17 July 1959; Easter Collection, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 6-25 May 1960, uncatalogued; Recent Australian Painting, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, June - July 1961, no. 65 (label verso); Godfrey Miller Memorial Exhibition, Darlinghurst Galleries, Sydney, 16 February - 27 March 1965, no. 2; The Private Collector: A Loan
• References:
  John Ogburn, 'Godfrey Miller, Artist', The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, 16 February 1965, p. 23; John Henshaw, Godfrey Miller, Darlinghurst Galleries, Sydney, 1965, plate 39, n.p. (illustrated); Deborah Edwards, with contributions by John Henshaw and Ann Wookey, Godfrey Miller 1893-1964, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1996, plate 168, pp. 76, 78 (illustrated), 124; Simon Pierse, Australian Art and Artists in London, 1950-1965: An Antipodean Summer, Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, Surry, 2012,
• Estimate:
  A$150,000 - 180,000
• Realised Price:
  *****
  

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• Category:
  Art

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