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Lot 101
  • 101

JOHN OLSEN Australian, B. 1928

Estimate
2,500 - 4,500 AUD
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Description

  • John Olsen
  • THREE MINING SCENES

  • ABANDONED MACHINERY, COOLGARDIE
    Each sheet signed with initials, two lower right, one lower left; bears title on the reverse 

    Watercolour, crayon and pencil on paper

    Three sheets; two 20 by 12 cm, one 12 by 20 cm, framed together

    SURVEYING AND EXPLORATION
    Each sheet signed lower right, one inscribed 'Drilling: white dust' lower left; bears title on the reverse

    Crayon and pencil on paper

    Three sheets; two 20 by 12 cm, one 12 by 20 cm, framed together

    SURVEYING AND DRILLING
    Two sheets signed with initials lower left; one signed with initials lower centre and inscribed 'Deep Leads' lower left

    Crayon and pencil on paper 

    Three sheets; two 20 by 12 cm, one 12 by 20 cm, framed together

Provenance

Commissioned by Pancontinental Mining Limited in 1985 to mark the opening of the Paddington gold mine in Western Australia

Corporate collection, Brisbane

Exhibited

John Olsen - Gold!, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, October 1986, cats 23, 27, 22

Literature

John Olsen - Gold!, Pancontinental Mining Limited, Sydney, 1986, each illus. full page, unpaginated 

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