Skip to main content

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

Lot 16
Robert Klippel
(1920 – 2001)
No. 223, BRONZE SCULPTURE, 1967

unique bronze cast

24.0 cm height



Estimate:
$8,000 – 12,000


Lot sold: $13,420 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

Robert Klippel
(1920 – 2001)
No. 223, BRONZE SCULPTURE, 1967

unique bronze cast

24.0 cm height

signed with initials and dated at base: RK 1967
bears inscription on base: 223

Provenance

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

Exhibited

Robert Klippel: Sculptures, Bonython Gallery, Sydney, 26 February – 13 March 1968
Robert Klippel Sculpture 1960s – 1970s from the Crebbin Collection, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 27 April – 14 May 1994, cat. 3 (illus. in exhibition catalogue)
20th Century Australian and New Zealand Painting, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney, March – April 1995, cat. 24 (illus. in exhibition catalogue)
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. 286, 289, 472 (illus., pl. 194)
Edwards, D., Robert Klippel, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2002, pp. 126, 248 (illus.)
Edwards, D., Robert Klippel: Catalogue Raisonné of Sculptures, (CD-ROM) Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2002, ‎No‎. 223 (illus.)