DAVID BOYD
1924-2011

PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION, SYDNEY

DAVID BOYD

1924-2011
Death of Burke (1957)

oil on composition board
signed 'David Boyd' lower right
122 x 172 cm

• Lot Sold SOLD (Hammer Price)

Provenance

David Boyd, Melbourne
Dr and Mrs Andrew Semple, Brisbane, by 1969
David Boyd and Hermia Boyd, Sydney
Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above

Exhibited

Exhibition by David Boyd, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, October 1958, no. 1, 175 gns
David Boyd, Terry Clune Galleries, Sydney, 1958 David Boyd, City Art Gallery, Newcastle, 1959
Exhibition of Oil Paintings by David Boyd, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 23 May - 3 June 1960, no. 1, 180 gns
Paintings by David Boyd, The Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane, 8-24 August 1961, no. 1, illustrated, 200 gns
David Boyd: A Retrospective Exhibition, Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery, London, 18 April - 11 May 1969; Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery, Scotland, 22 May - 7 June 1969, no. 2, illustrated
David Boyd: Survey Retrospective Exhibition (1957-1992), Caulfield Arts Complex, Melbourne, 27 May - 10 June 1992, no. 78, illustrated
David Boyd: A Retrospective of Paintings from Various Series 1957-96 and Selected Recent Works, Wagner Art Gallery, Sydney, 1-24 September 1998, no. 1
David Boyd: His Work, His Life, His Family, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 17 August - 23 September 2012

Literature

Nancy Benko, The Art of David Boyd, Lidmus, Adelaide, 1973, pp. 18, 21 (illustrated), 34, 38, 44, 174, 227
Clive Evatt, David Boyd: A Retrosepctive Exhibition 1957-1978, Albert Hall, Canberra, 1979, n.p. (illustrated)
Patricia Dobrez and Peter Herbst, The Art of the Boyds, Bay Books, Sydney, 1990, plate 141, pp. 133 (illustrated), 227
David Boyd, David Boyd: Survey Retrospective Exhibition (1957-1992), Wagner Art Gallery, Sydney, 1992, plate 20, pp. 20 (illustrated), 28