KEN WHISSON
born 1927
Motor Cars and Drivers 1975
$45,000–65,000
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, MELBOURNE
KEN WHISSON
born 1927
Motor Cars and Drivers 1975
oil on composition board
signed 'WHISSON' upper right; signed, dated and inscribed 'ABOUT MARCH 1975 / MOTOR CARS AND DRIVERS' verso
84 x 105.5 cm
frame: original, Ken Whisson, Melbourne
- Lot Sold $45,000 (Hammer Price)
- $55,227 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Ken Whisson, Melbourne
Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
Private Collection
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Art Galleries Schubert, Surfers Paradise (label verso)
Private Collection, Queensland
Australian & International Fine Art, Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 9 May 2007, lot 16, illustrated $72,000
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above
Exhibited
Ken Whisson: Paintings and Drawings, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane, 19 June – 15 July 1976, no. 4
Ken Whisson: As If, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 17 March – 15 July 2012; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 28 September – 25 November 2012, no. 82, illustrated
Literature
Glenn Barkley & Lesley Harding, Ken Whisson: As If, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2012, pp. 84 (illustrated), 153 (illustrated)
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