LS 85, 1977 – 78

Important Fine Art and Aboriginal Art
Sydney
30 November 2016
23

ROBERT KLIPPEL

(1920 – 2001)
LS 85, 1977 – 78

thirty individual collages on paper

29.0 x 41.0 cm

signed and dated lower left: Robert Klippel 1977 / 78
bears inscription verso: #38
inscribed verso: To Dick Crebbin / With warm regards / From Bob Klippel . Dec 1978

Estimate: 
$6,000 – 9,000
Sold for $9,150 (inc. BP) in Auction 46 - 30 November 2016, Sydney
Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist in 1978
Richard and Joan Crebbin Collection, Sydney
Mrs Joan Crebbin, Sydney

Exhibited

Gleeson and Klippel, Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney, 11– 29 November 1978, cat. 28
Robert Klippel: collage and drawings 1947 – 83, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 November – 3 January 1984, cat. 142
Robert Klippel: a retrospective exhibition of sculpture and works on paper, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne, 15 September – 25 October 1987, cat. 92
Robert Klippel: a tribute exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 9 August– 13 October 2002 (as ‘Untitled’, 1977 – 78)

Literature

Gleeson, J., Robert Klippel, Bay Books, Sydney, 1983, p. 437 (illus.)
Edwards, D., Robert Klippel, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2002, p. 171 (illus.), p. 257