Smith & Singer
Important Australian Art
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PROPERTY FORMERLY FROM THE POSTGATE FAMILY COLLECTION, UNITED KINGDOM

STELLA BOWEN
1893-1947

John Postgate (1934)

$35,000–45,000

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PROPERTY FORMERLY FROM THE POSTGATE FAMILY COLLECTION, UNITED KINGDOM

STELLA BOWEN

1893-1947
John Postgate (1934)

oil on cardboard
signed 'STELLA / BOWEN' lower right
74.5 x 56.5 cm
frame: original, maker unknown

  • Lot Sold $35,000 (Hammer Price)
  • $42,955 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Stella Bowen, England
The Postgate Family Collection, United Kingdom
Important Australian Art, Smith & Singer (trading as Sotheby's Australia), Sydney, 25 August 2015, lot 113, illustrated
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above

Exhibited

Stella Bowen: Art, Love and War, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 15 March - 10 June 2002, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 19 July - 29 September 2002; Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, 12 October - 8 December 2002; Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, 15 December 2002 - 2 February 2003; Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, 8 February - 10 March 2003; State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 March - 18 May 2013; Brisbane Civic Art Gallery, Brisbane, 30 May - 27 July 2003; Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns, 9 August - 28 September 2003; Grafton Regional Gallery, Gosford, 9 October - 7 December 2003; Bathurst Regional Gallery, Bathurst, 18 December 2003 - 15 February 2004, no. 37, illustrated (label verso)

Literature

Lola Wilkins, Stella Bowen: Art, Love and War, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 2002, pp. 16-17, 62 (illustrated)

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Important Australian Art

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