Joy Hester (1920 - 1960)

Danila, c.1945

ink and brush on paper

40.5 x 50.5 cm (sheet)
66.5 x 74.5 cm (frame)

estate stamp lower right: Joy Hester
bears inscription verso: John Sinclair

Probably: John Sinclair, Melbourne
Reed Family Collection, Melbourne
Gould Galleries, Melbourne (label attached verso)
The Estate of Felicity St John Moore, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 2005

‘Joy Hester’ Works from the Reed Family Collection, Gould Galleries, Melbourne, 27 April – 22 May 2005, cat. 15 (illus. in exhibition catalogue)
Those who made and those who saw: portraits of the Heide circle, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 3 November 2007 – 15 June 2008

Harding, L., and Short, L., Those who made and those who saw: portraits of the Heide circle, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2008, p. 43 (illus.)