Richard Larter (1929 - 2014)

FOUR SEATED PATS, 1989

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

176.0 x 122.0 cm

signed with initials and dated lower right: RL / 3/4 .1989
signed, dated and inscribed with title verso: RICHARD LARTER / “4 SEATED PATS” / March to April 1989. / Richard Larter / … / Property / of PAT / LARTER

Legge Gallery, Sydney
The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Sydney, acquired from the above in July 1990

Richard Larter Figurative Works, in conjunction with Watters Gallery and Legge Gallery, Sydney, 19 June – 7 July 1990, cat. 1
An Exhibition At Two Venues – An Exhibition to Celebrate Richard Larter’s Seventieth Birthday, Watters Gallery, Sydney and Legge Gallery, Sydney, 4 – 22 May 1999, cat. 45
Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, 17 March – 9 April 2011, cat. 37 (label attached verso)

Dowse, B., Richard Larter: An Artist in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Australian National University, Canberra, 1989, honours thesis, fig. 15, p. 165 (illus.)