TWO GIRLS, c.1945

100 Highlights from the Cbus Collection of Australian Art
Melbourne
27 July 2022
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JEAN BELLETTE

(1908 - 1991)
TWO GIRLS, c.1945

oil on board

52.5 x 37.5 cm

signed with initials lower right: JB
signed and inscribed with title verso: TWO GIRLS / Jean…

Estimate: 
$5,000 – $7,000
Sold for $13,500 (inc. BP) in Auction 70 - 27 July 2022, Melbourne
Provenance

Macquarie Galleries, Sydney (label attached verso)
Private collection
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 22 April 1991, lot 182
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 29 April 1991

Exhibited

Jean Bellette Retrospective, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 10 December 2004 – 16 January 2005; S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 12 March – 24 April 2005; University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, 6 May – 12 June 2005; Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, 12 July – 28 August 2005 and Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, 3 November – 18 December 2005, cat. 13
Figurative Works from the Cbus Collection, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 4 August – 2 December 2012
on long term loan to Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong, New South Wales

Literature

France, C., Jean Bellette Retrospective, National Trust of Australia, Sydney, 2005, pp. 28 (illus.), 71
Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 18, 65 (illus.), 213