John Olsen (1928 - 2023)

BECKETT PASSING, 1992

colour aquatint

40.0 x 44.0 cm (image, irregular)
74.0 x 52.0 cm (sheet)
84.0 x 60.0 cm (frame)

signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title below image: 15/15 'Beckett Passing By' John Olsen / '92

Private collection, Melbourne

The Three O’s: Orban, Olsen & Ogburn, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, New South Wales, 18 October – 1 December 2013, then touring to Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, Victoria, 7 December 2013 – 19 January 2014; Muswellbrook Art Centre, Muswellbrook, New South Wales; 31 January – 2 March 2014; Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Manly, New South Wales, 21 March – 27 April 2014; Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland, New South Wales, 2 May – 29 June 2014; Artspace Mackay, Mackay, Queensland, 11 July – 31 August 2014 (another example)

McGregor, K., John Olsen: His Complete Graphics 1957-2005, Macmillan Publishers Australia, Melbourne, 2005, pp. 128, 130 (illus., another example)
Collerton, E., The Three O's: Orban, Olsen & Ogburn (exhibition catalogue), Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, 2013, cat. 59, p. 34 (illus., another example)

Another example of this work is held in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

This work is located in our Melbourne Gallery