MOTHER AND CHILD, CAIRNS, 1949

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
10 April 2019
57

IAN FAIRWEATHER

(1891 – 1974)
MOTHER AND CHILD, CAIRNS, 1949

gouache, ink and watercolour on paper

21.0 x 17.0 cm

signed lower right: ‘if’ in Chinese

Estimate: 
$20,000 – 30,000
Sold for $26,840 (inc. BP) in Auction 57 - 10 April 2019, Sydney
Provenance

Len Annois, Melbourne
Thence by descent
Mavis Martha Annois, Melbourne
Kath and Jim Morgan, Melbourne
Private collection, Sydney
Thence by descent
Private collection, Sydney 

Exhibited

The Drawings of Ian Fairweather, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 21 June – 24 August 1997; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 October – 7 December 1997; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 7 February– 29 March 1998 (label attached verso)

Literature

Fisher, T., The Drawings of Ian Fairweather, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1997, pp. 40 (illus.), 63