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Important Australian + International Fine Art - 1 December 2022  |  Melbourne

Lot 65
Constance Stokes
(1906 - 1991)
WOMAN IN A GARDEN, c.1981

oil on composition board

53.5 x 45.0 cm



Estimate:
$10,000 – $15,000


Lot sold: $20,864 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

Constance Stokes
(1906 - 1991)
WOMAN IN A GARDEN, c.1981

oil on composition board

53.5 x 45.0 cm

signed lower right: Constance Stokes 

Provenance

Estate of the artist, Melbourne
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne 
Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 2021 

Exhibited

Constance Stokes Retrospective Exhibition, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, 1985, cat. 12 (labels attached verso) 
Constance Stokes, Eastgate Gallery, Melbourne, 30 May – 4 July 1990, cat. 23 
Constance Stokes 1906 – 1991, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 3 March – 19 May 1993, cat. 16 (label attached verso) 
Constance Stokes 1906 – 1991, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 30 November 2021 – 18 March 2022 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 6) 

Literature

Burke, J., Constance Stokes: Retrospective Exhibition, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, 1985, p. 22 (illus.) 
D’Albrera, L. W., Constance Stokes: Art and Life, Hill House, Melbourne, 2015, pp. 156, 159 (illus.)