Twenty Classics of Australian Art - 11 November 2020 | Melbourne
Lot 25
Ian Fairweather
(1891 – 1974)
HEAD OF A GIRL, 1949
ink and gouache on paper
23.5 x 17.0 cm
Estimate:
$20,000 – 30,000
Lot sold: $24,545 (inc. BP)
Lot Details
Description
Ian Fairweather
(1891 – 1974)
HEAD OF A GIRL, 1949
ink and gouache on paper
23.5 x 17.0 cm
signed with initials (as Chinese character) lower right: IF
Provenance
Stanley Coe Gallery, Melbourne
Guelda Pyke, Melbourne
Joseph Brown, Melbourne
Christie’s, Sydney, 22 October 1975, lot 489 (as ‘A Girl’s Head, c.1950’)
Private collection, Sydney
Exhibited
Gouache Drawings by Ian Fairweather, Stanley Coe Gallery, Melbourne, 24 July – August 1, 1951, cat. 15
Spring, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 7 – 23 October 1974, cat. 50 (as ‘Head Study’)
(illus. in exhibition catalogue)
We are grateful to Murray Bail for his assistance with this catalogue entry.