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Important Australian + International Fine Art - 22 November 2023  |  Sydney

Lot 6
Ian Fairweather
(1891 - 1974)
CANAL, FOOCHOW, 1945 - 47

gouache on paper

37.0 x 39.5 cm



Estimate:
AU$90,000 – $120,000


Lot sold: $98,182 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

Ian Fairweather
(1891 - 1974)
CANAL, FOOCHOW, 1945 - 47

gouache on paper

37.0 x 39.5 cm

signed lower right: I Fairweather

Provenance

Redfern Gallery, London (label attached verso)
The Skinner Collection, Perth, acquired from the above 19 December 1953 
Thence by descent 
Private collection, Perth 

Exhibited

Ian Fairweather, Redfern Gallery, London, 28 October – 20 November 1948, cat. 19
ORIENTing: Ian Fairweather in Western Australian Collections, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth, 4 May - 13 July 2013

Literature

Bail, M., Ian Fairweather, Bay Books, Sydney, 1981, fig. 36, cat. 75, pp. 88 (illus.), 236
Snell, T. et al., ORIENTing: Ian Fairweather in Western Australian Collections, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth, 2013, fig. 14, pp. 12, 72 (illus.), 100