Lot 11
  • 11

Lance Solomon

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 AUD
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Description

  • Lance Solomon
  • THE FOWL YARD
  • Signed and dated Lance Solomon / 45 (lower left)
  • Oil on composition board

  • 27 by 23.5cm

Provenance

The artist
The late Dr and Mrs D. R. Sheumack, Sydney; purchased from the above in 1957; thence by descent

Exhibited

The D. R. Sheumack Collection of Australian Paintings, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 17 May - 12 June 1983, cat. 92

Literature

Robyn Christie and Justin Miller, The D. R. Sheumack Collection, Eighty Years of Australian Paintings, Sydney: Sotheby's Australia Pty. Ltd., 1988, pl. 73 (illus.)

Condition

There is a small nail hole (upper centre) and a similar pair of nail holes (lower centre) on the edges against the frame rebate where the artist would have nailed the board for painting. The masonite has warn away on the lower right hand corner; otherwise the work is in good original condition.
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