Important Australian Art Including Selected International Works

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Lot 76
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SAM FULLBROOK

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 AUD
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Description

  • Sam Fullbrook
  • NOCTURNE WITH AEROPLANE AND FISHES
  • Signed with initials lower right; bears title on the reverse  
  • Oil on canvas
  • 96 by 80.5 cm

Provenance

Collection of Dr Robert Juniper, Perth

Exhibited

Sam Fullbrook: Racing Colours, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 7 June - 24 July 1995, cat. 29 (label on the reverse)

 

Literature

Felicity St. John Moore, Sam Fullbrook: Racing Colours, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 7 June - 24 July 1995, cat. 29, p. 41, illus.

Catalogue Note

'I want to paint good pictures that children will love.'1

Born in Chippendale Sydney in 1922, Sam Fullbrook was predominantly known as a painter of the bush and an occasional portrait painter. His broad subject matter took him all across Australia, working as a canecutter and miner.

Nocturne with Aeroplane and Fishes painted in 1965 shows Fullbrook's exquisite sense of colour and balance. Instead of being intimidated by the harshness and brutality of the Australian outback, Fullbrook found beauty in the details of nature and the surrounds.

'When Robert Juniper told Fullbrook that he could not see the aeroplane, Fullbrook's reply was, 'So what? Australian painters take themselves too seriously - if you want to paint a tree flying through the air, do it'.' 2

1. Philip Bacon Galleries, Queensland, Sam Fullbrook (catalogue), 2003
2. St. John Moore, F., Sam Fullbrook: Racing Colours, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 7 June - 24 July 1995, p. 41