Kate O’Connor (1876 - 1968)

oil on canvas

73.0 x 92.0 cm

signed lower right: K L O’Connor painted on reverse: First Communion

Ailsa Osborne Gallery, Adelaide
Mrs Sweetenham, Adelaide, acquired from the above c.1965
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 12 April 1989, lot 1430 (as ‘Mardi Gras – still life with theatre masks; On reverse: Portrait of a Lady in White’)
Bill Luke, Melbourne
Arthur Spartalis Fine Art, Perth, 1995
Private collection, Perth

Kathleen O’Connor, Ailsa Osborne Gallery, Adelaide, 1965
Kathleen O’Connor, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 4 July – 29 September 1996 (label attached verso)

Masks, oil on canvas, 57.5 x 71.0 cm, collection of Lee Steere family, exhibited Kathleen O'Connor: Hommage Exhibition, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 22 February – 19 March 1967, cat. 38, illus. in Hutchings, P.A.E. and Lewis, J., Kathleen O’Connor Artist in Exile, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, 1987, p. 278