Charles Wheeler
(1881 - 1977)
CANE FIELDS, INNISFALL
oil on cardboard
30.0 x 40.5 cm
51.0 x 61.5 cm (frame)
signed lower right: C. Wheeler [indistinct]
inscribed with title verso: CANE FIELDS, INNISFALL
Estimate:
$1,500 - $2,500
Sold:
$1,841 (inc. BP)
lot details
51.0 x 61.5 cm (frame)
inscribed with title verso: CANE FIELDS, INNISFALL
Private collection
Christie’s, Melbourne, 27 August 2002, lot 353
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above 18 November 2002
Exhibited
Overland, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 10 March – 15 July 2012
Literature
Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 60 (illus.), 237
Condition:
This work is in very good, stable and near original condition.
There is a 13 cm fine diagonal hairline surface crack to the upper left corner. This is minor and visible in the enlarged online catalogue image.
Under ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of past restoration.
The work is housed in a timber gilt frame with linen slip.