William Dobell (1899 - 1970)

STUDY FOR THE STUDENT, 1940

oil on card

45.0 x 27.0 cm

signed and dated lower right: W Dobell / 40

Mr and Mrs Geoffrey Collings, New South Wales
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
Mr Alan Greenway, Australia and USA, acquired from the above
Thence by descent
Private collection, California, USA

Contemporary Art Society, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney, 1940
William Dobell, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney, 1 – 26 August 1944, cat. 33 (as ‘Study for “Portrait of a Student”, 1941’)
Paintings and Drawings by William Dobell, John Martin & Co. Ltd., Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Adelaide, 1960, cat. 6 (as ‘The Study for the Student’)
William Dobell Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 July – 30 August 1964, cat. 80 (label attached verso, as ‘Study for the Student (Warren Stewart)’)

Penton, B., The Art of William Dobell, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1946, pp. 8, 121 (illus.)
Gleeson, J., William Dobell, Thames and Hudson, London, 1964, cat. 88, pl. 33 (illus.), p. 192

The Student, 1940, oil on canvas, 108.0 x 72.0 cm, private collection