Ivor Francis (1906 - 1993)

TOP O’HAHNDORF, 1970

oil on canvas on composition board

68.0 x 61.0 cm
87.5 x 80.0 cm (frame)

signed lower right: Francis I
signed and inscribed with title on artist’s label verso: IVOR FRANCIS/1. Top o Hahndorf 

Estate of the Artist, Crafers, South Australia
Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide, February 1995 (label attached verso)
Private collection
Christie’s, Melbourne, 20 August 1996, lot 36
Private collection
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 9 November 1999, lot.100A (as ‘Top O’handorf [sic.]’)
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above

The Maude Vizard–Wholohan Art Prize Exhibition, RSASA Gallery, Adelaide, 1970, cat. 10
15th Tasmanian Art Gallery Exhibition, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 1971
Ivor Francis – an Adelaide Modernist: Sixty years of painting, Art Gallery of South Australia, 3 July – 30 August 1987, cat. 54 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 36)
Women of the World, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 14 November 2009 – 21 February 2010
Morning, Noon and Night: Selected Works from the Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 13 July – 13 October 2019
on long term loan to Latrobe Regional 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. 114 (illus.), 219

Condition:
This work is in excellent, stable and original condition.
Under ultraviolet light inspection, fluorescing areas in the sky appear to represent the artist’s retouching.
The work is housed in a timber frame with cream face and gilt front edges.