Arthur Boyd (1920 - 1999)

The disrobement, 1961

charcoal on paper on board 

124.5 x 122.0 cm
122.0 x 131.5 cm (frame)

signed lower right: Arthur Boyd

Collection of the artist
Harold E. Mertz, New York, USA
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, a gift from the above in 1972 (label attached verso)
The Harold E Mertz Collection of Australian Art, Christie’s, Melbourne, 28 June 2000, lot 25
Private collection, Sydney
Savill Galleries, Sydney (label attached verso)
Private collection, Sydney
Estate of the above

Arthur Boyd Retrospective Exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery, London, June – July 1962, cat. 152
The Australian Painters 1964-1966: Contemporary Australian Painting from the Mertz Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, USA, 10 March – 16 April 1967, cat. 4 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 32)
The Australian Painters: 1964 – 1966, from the Mertz Collection, The American Federation of Arts, New York, USA, May 1967 – December 1968, cat. 5 (label attached verso)
Arthur Boyd, Savill Galleries, Sydney, 7 – 31 March 2007, cat. 32 (illus. in exhibition catalogue)

Phillip, F., Arthur Boyd, Thames and Hudson, London, 1967, cat. 16.46, pp. 142, 147, 275 (dated as 1961 – 62)

The disrobement (of Christ), 1950 – 51, ceramic painting,18.0 x 18.0 cm, private collection, illus. in Franz, P., Arthur Boyd, Thames and Hudson, London, 1967, cat. 6.22, pl. 56