Hilarie Mais (British/Australian, born 1952)

BLIND SIMILE, 1997

oil on timber and oil on canvas (diptych)

60.0 x 60.0 cm (each)
120.0 x 120.0 cm (overall)

both panels signed, dated and inscribed with title verso: Hilarie Mais 1997 / Blind Simile

Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne (label attached verso)
The Lowenstein Sharp Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above
Deutscher~Menzies, Melbourne, 11 November 2002, lot 50
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above

Hilarie Mais, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, 23 May – 18 June 1998, cat. 7
Essential, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 8 May – 5 September 2010
Mute Reason, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 27 April – 25 August 2013
on long term loan to Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria

Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 173 (illus.) 224