JUSTIN MAURICE O'BRIEN (1917 - 1996) FROM THE SERIES 'STATIONS OF THE CROSS'

Estimate

1,500 - 2,500 AUD

bidding is closed

Description

JUSTIN MAURICE O'BRIEN (1917 - 1996) FROM THE SERIES 'STATIONS OF THE CROSS'
30cm by 25.5cm and 32cm by 22.5cm

pencil and wash
signed top right hand corner Obrien

together with

JUSTIN O'BRIEN 'FOUR YOUNG MEN SKETCH

pencil on paper
signed top right hand corner O'Brien

Provenance

Macquarie Galleries, Sydney

Catalogue Note

Justin O'Brien won the inaugural Blake Prize in 1951 for a series of 'Stations of the Cross' and in 1959 he was commissioned to paint a series for St Francis Xavier Cabrini Hospital, Malvern, Victoria.