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Important Australian + International Fine Art - 31 August 2011  |  Melbourne

Lot 78
William Dobell
(1899 - 1970)
FLOOD RAINS, VIETNAM, 1964

oil on board

21.5 x 30.0 cm



Estimate:
$15,000 - 20,000


Lot sold: $15,600 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

William Dobell
(1899 - 1970)
FLOOD RAINS, VIETNAM, 1964

oil on board

21.5 x 30.0 cm

signed and dated upper left: DOBELL 66 [sic]

Provenance

Harold E. Mertz collection, Texas, United States of America
The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, United States of America, gift of the above in 1972 (label and metal registration plate attached verso)
Christie's, Melbourne, 28 June 2000, lot 54 (as Flood Rains, Saigon, 1966)
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited

William Dobell Paintings From 1926 – 1964, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 July – 30 August 1964, cat. 222 (label attached verso)
The Australian Painters 1964 – 1966, Contemporary Australian Painting from the Mertz Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, United States of America, 1966, cat. 15 (as Flood Rains, Saigon) (label attached verso)
Legends and Landscape in Australian Art, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas, United States of America, 9 November – 19 December 1986

Literature

The Australian Painters 1964–1966: Contemporary Australian Painting from the Mertz Collection, The Griffin Press, Adelaide, 1967, pl. 10, p. 35 (illus.)