Enos Namatjira (1920 - 1966)

THE BLUE MACDONNELL RANGES, c.1955

pencil and watercolour on paper

15.5 x 26.0 cm (sight)
46.0 x 56.0 cm (frame)

signed lower left: ENOS. NAMATjiRA
inscribed with title verso: THE BLUE MACDONNELLS

Private collection
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 31 July 1990, lot 815
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 2 August 1990

BUS Art Collection, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, New South Wales, 16 March – 12 April 1992, cat. 39
Dawn to Dusk: Landscapes from the Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 31 May – 16 Nov 2014

Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 83 (illus.) 227 (as ‘The blue Macdonnell Ranges’)

Condition:
This work is in excellent, stable and original condition.
The colour pigment values remain strong and vibrant. The work has not been viewed out of its frame, but the paper sheet does not appear to be laid down.
Under ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of past restoration.

The work is housed in a gilt timber frame with cream window mount under Perspex.