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Important Fine Art and Aboriginal Art - 30 November 2016  |  Sydney

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Lot 4
Robert Klippel
(1920 – 2001)
No. 11, GRIEF, 1944

cedar, carved

9.5 cm height


Estimate:
$8,000 – 12,000

Lot sold: $31,720 (inc. BP)

Lot Details

Description
Robert Klippel
(1920 – 2001)
No. 11, GRIEF, 1944

cedar, carved

9.5 cm height

signed with initials, dated and inscribed on base: RK / RK / 11 / 1944 / MOTHER

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist, Sydney
Richard and Joan Crebbin Collection, Sydney
Mrs Joan Crebbin, Sydney

Exhibited

Robert Klippel: a retrospective exhibition of sculpture and works on paper, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne, 15 September – 25 October 1987, cat. 1
Robert Klippel: a tribute exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 9 August – 13 October 2002

Literature

Gleeson, J., Robert Klippel, Bay Books, Sydney, 1983, pp. 27, 429, 462 (illus. pl. 23)
Edwards, D., Robert Klippel, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2002, pp. 25, 246 (illus.)
Edwards, D., Robert Klippel: Catalogue Raisonné of Sculptures, (CD-ROM) Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2002, ‎No‎. 11 (illus.)