Peter Booth
(born 1940)
Spider and head, 1994
pastel and watercolour on paper
65.0 x 102.5 cm (sheet)
87.5 x 124.5 cm (frame)
Estimate:
$8,000 - $10,000
Sold:
$7,364 (inc. BP)
© Peter Booth/Copyright Agency, 2023
lot details
87.5 x 124.5 cm (frame)
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
The Laverty Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in August 1994
Bonhams, Sydney, 24 March 2013, lot 73
Private collection, Adelaide
Exhibited
Peter Booth – Paintings & Works on Paper 1992-1994, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 15 July – 6 August 1994, cat. 7
Peter Booth – Human/Nature, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 29 November 2003 – 29 February 2004, cat. 208 (label attached verso)
Literature
Heathcote, C., ‘Mankind, morality and what it’s all about’, The Age, 20 July 1994
Smith, J., Peter Booth – Human/Nature, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2003, p. 151, cat. no. 208 (label attached verso)
Condition: This work is in excellent, stable and original condition.
This work has been placed in a window mount and is housed in a black painted timber frame under Perspex.