William Dobell
(1899 - 1970)
Sketch for Woodcarter, c.1950
oil on composition board
17.0 x 34.5 cm
29.5 x 46.5 cm (frame)
signed lower left: W Dobell
Estimate:
$18,000 - $25,000
© Courtesy Sir William Dobell Art Foundation / Copyright Agency, 2026
lot details
William Dobell (1899 - 1970)
Sketch for Woodcarter, c.1950
oil on composition board
17.0 x 34.5 cm
29.5 x 46.5 cm (frame)
29.5 x 46.5 cm (frame)
signed lower left: W Dobell
Provenance
Major Harold De Vahl Rubin, Queensland (label attached verso)
The Harold De Vahl Rubin Collection Part II, Christie’s, Sydney, 2 October 1973, lot 81
Private collection, Sydney
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 18 June 2013, lot 120
Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane (label attached verso, as ‘Carting wood’)
Private collection, Sydney
Estate of the above
Exhibited
The Landscape 1804 – 2015, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, 2 – 27 February 2016, cat. 20 (as ‘Carting wood’)