William Dobell
(1899 - 1970)
SELF PORTRAIT, c.1966 – 68
oil on composition board
19.5 x 40.5 cm
Estimate:
$28,000 - $35,000
Sold:
$31,909 (inc. BP)
© William Dobell/Copyright Agency 2023
lot details
William Dobell (1899 - 1970)
SELF PORTRAIT, c.1966 – 68
oil on composition board
19.5 x 40.5 cm
Provenance
The Artist’s Estate
Sotheby’s, Sydney, 19 November 1973, lot 100
John Fairfax and Sons, Sydney
Private collection, Melbourne, since 2002
Thence by descent
Amanda Adams Auctions, Melbourne, 12 February 2023, lot 554
Private collection, New South Wales
Related Works
Self Portrait, 1968, oil on composition board, 75.5 x 121.0 cm, Art Gallery of South Australia
(illus. in Pearce, B., William Dobell, The painters Progress, The Beagle Press, Sydney, 1997 p. 127
Study for Self Portrait, 1966, oil and pencil on board, signed and dated ’Dobell 66’ lower right, 20.3 x 30.8 cm, formally in The Harold E. Mertz Collection