Lot 49
  • 49

JUSTIN O'BRIEN

Estimate
40,000 - 50,000 AUD
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Description

  • Justin O'Brien
  • FLIGHT INTO EGYPT
  • Signed upper right
  • Oil on canvas on board
  • 67.8 by 46.5 cm
  • Painted circa 1947

Provenance

Macquarie Galleries, Sydney (label on reverse)
Fine Australian Art, Sotheby's, Sydney, 24 August 2004, lot 16
Private collection, Sydney ; purchased from the above

Condition

There is a slight bubbling of the canvas upper-right near frame rebate. Tiny areas of flaring under ultraviolet light through the blue gown of the figure in ultra-marine blue. It is in a gold and coffee-coloured timber frame.
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