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• Auction House:
  Sotheby's Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  27 Aug 2019 ~ 6.30pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  3
• Lot Description:
  John Passmore
  (1904-1984)
  Figure Reclining on Beach
  oil on composition board
  72 x 94.5 cm
  EXHIBITED: "The Mertz Collection of Contemporary Australian Painting", National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 10 March - 11 April 1966, no. 70; "The Australian Painters 1964-66: Contemporary Australian Painting from the Mertz Collection", The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 10 March - 16 April 1967, no. 111, illustrated; "Legends and Landscape in Australian Art: A Selection of Paintings from the Harold E Mertz Collection at the Archer M Huntington Art Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin", Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, 9 November - 19 December 1986
• Provenance:
  Private Collection Mr Harold Mertz, New York The University of Texas, Austin, United States of America, gift from the above in 1972 (label verso) ; "The Harold E Mertz Collection of Australian Art", Christie's Australia, Melbourne, 28 June 2000, lot 51, illustrated ; Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above
• Estimate:
  A$40,000 - 60,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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