No. 459, PAINTED WOOD CONSTRUCTION, 1985

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
10 April 2019
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ROBERT KLIPPEL

(1920 – 2001)
No. 459, PAINTED WOOD CONSTRUCTION, 1985

wood assemblage

150.0 cm height

Estimate: 
$10,000 – 15,000
Sold for $10,980 (inc. BP) in Auction 57 - 10 April 2019, Sydney
Provenance

Private collection
Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
143 Works from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 21 June 1992, lot 110
Estate of Kerry Hill AO, Singapore

Exhibited

Australian Sculpture Now: Second Australian Sculpture Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 6 November 1984 – 28 January 1985, cat. 29
Painters and Sculptors – Diversity in Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 23 June – 23 August 1987 then travelling to Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan, 9 October – 16 December 1987, cat. 68 (illus. in Museum of Modern Art exhibition catalogue, p. 52

Literature

Sturgeon, G., Australian Sculpture Now: Second Australian Sculpture Triennial, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1984, pp. 28 (illus.), 121 (illus.)
Palmer, M., ‘Australian Sculpture Now: The Second Australian Sculpture Triennial’, Art and Australia, Fine Arts Press, Sydney, vol. 23, no. 1, Spring 1985, p. 83 (illus.)
Hogan, J. (ed), Painters and Sculptors – Diversity in Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1987, p. 31 (illus.)
Edwards, D., Robert Klippel: Catalogue Raisonné of Sculptures, (CD-ROM) Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2002, No. 459 (illus. another view)