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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Fine Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  28 Oct 2014 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  18
• Lot Description:
  Eric Wilson
  (1911-1946)
  Wantabadgery Landscape 1946
  oil on canvas
  57 x 73.5 cm
  signed and dated 'ERIC WILSON 46' lower left
• Provenance:
  The Collection of Sir Keith Murdoch, Melbourne (probably); The Joseph Brown Collection, circa 1970; Christies, Paintings From The Dr Joseph Brown Collection, Melbourne, 17 May 2005, Lot No. 15; Private Collection, Melbourne; Private Collection, Melbourne
• Exhibited:
  The Joseph Brown Collection, NGV Melbourne, 31 October - 7 December 1980, cat. no. 119; Australian Paintings from the Joseph Brown Collection, Art Gallery New South Wales, Sydney 1989, cat. no. 66; Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, 12 April - 5 May 2012, cat. no. 6
• References:
  The Joseph Brown Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1980, no. 119, (illustrated); Barry Pearce, Australian Paintings from the Joseph Brown Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1989, no. 66, (illustrated); Daniel Thomas, Outlines of Australian Art-The Joseph Brown Collection, MacMillian, Melbourne, 1989, 3rd edition, p.65, (illustrated), pl.184; Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, 2012, cat. no. 6, (illustrated)
• Notes:
  Andrew Sayers, Eric Wilson, Exhibition Catalogue, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, 1983, see p. 6 for general notes: 'In 1937, Eric Wilson won the New South Wales Travelling Art Scholarship. This enabled him to spend over two years in England, where he studied under modernists Elmslie Owen at the Westminster School and Henry Moore at Ozenfant's Academy, Earl's Court, and also gave him the opportunity to travel to Italy, Paris and The Netherlands. Wilson returned to Australia at the outbreak of the Second World War with an artistic sensibility shaped by his travels, particularly a new-found appreciation for cubist abstraction. In 1944 he wrote that an abstract picture is no longer a window through which one views a charming piece of nature, but is itself the object. This is the final reality [the artist] is alone concerned with, not at all an illusion of nature's appearances.' (Sayers, op cit).
• Estimate:
  A$8,000 - 12,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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