William Dobell
(1899 - 1970)
TRAPPING THE FLYING FOX, NEW GUINEA, 1964
oil on board
15.0 x 31.5 cm
signed lower left: DOBELL
Estimate:
$15,000 - $20,000
Sold:
$24,545 (inc. BP)
© Courtesy Sir William Dobell Art Foundation / Copyright Agency, 2020
lot details
William Dobell (1899 - 1970)
TRAPPING THE FLYING FOX, NEW GUINEA, 1964
oil on board
15.0 x 31.5 cm
signed lower left: DOBELL
Provenance
Harold E. Mertz Collection, USA
Christie’s, Melbourne, 28 June 2000, lot 133
Private collection, Victoria
Exhibited
The Mertz Collection of Contemporary Australian Painting, National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, March 1966, cat. 27
Contemporary Australian Painting from the Mertz Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA, 1966, cat. 8
Legends and Landscape in Australian Art, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Austin, Texas, USA, 9 November – 19 December 1986 (label attached verso)