Hugh Sawrey
(1923 - 1999)
MONKIRA RINGERS
oil on composition board
50.0 x 60.0 cm
signed lower right: SAWREY
inscribed verso: "MONKIRA / RINGERS" / DIAMANTINA / CHANNELS / WESTERN / QLD / HUGH SAWREY
Estimate:
$5,000 - $8,000
Sold:
$12,000 (inc. BP)
lot details
Hugh Sawrey (1923 - 1999)
MONKIRA RINGERS
oil on composition board
50.0 x 60.0 cm
signed lower right: SAWREY
inscribed verso: "MONKIRA / RINGERS" / DIAMANTINA / CHANNELS / WESTERN / QLD / HUGH SAWREY
inscribed verso: "MONKIRA / RINGERS" / DIAMANTINA / CHANNELS / WESTERN / QLD / HUGH SAWREY
Provenance
Brigadier R.W.P. Dodd, MC (CMF), Queensland
Thence by descent
Estate of Molly Dodd, Queensland
Literature
Sawrey, H., The Art of Hugh Sawrey, Collectors Edition, John Hooper, Queensland, 1981, pp. 72–73 (illus. Front Cover and p. 73)
'In the course of tending a muster, and meeting up with the Durrie, Mt. Leonard and Monkira Ringers, the artist found himself tailing bullocks on Monkira Run. In this painting he depicts two of the Monkira stockmen, boiling up along the Diamantina River, channel country, western Queensland.'