Noel Counihan (1913 - 1986)

FITZROY CHARACTERS, 1966

oil on composition board

90.0 x 113.0 cm

signed and dated lower left: Counihan ‘66

The Collection of Mr Harold E Mertz, New York
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, The University of Texas, Austin, USA, a gift from the above, 1972 (label attached verso)
The Harold E. Mertz Collection of Australian Art, Christie’s, Melbourne, 28 June 2000, lot 93
Private collection, Melbourne

The Mertz Collection of Contemporary Australian Painting, National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 10 March – 11 April 1966, cat. 17 (as ‘Unemployed’)
The Australian Painters 1964-66: Contemporary Australian Painting from the Mertz Collection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, cat. 114 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 81)
The Australian Painters: 1950 – 1966, from the Mertz Collection, The American Federation of Arts, New York, January 1969, cat. 10 (label attached verso)