Lot 15
  • 15

Sali Herman

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 AUD
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Description

  • Sali Herman
  • REDFERN BACKYARDS
  • Signed and dated S. Herman. 63 (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 44.5 by 64.5cm

Provenance

The artist
The late Dr and Mrs D. R. Sheumack, Sydney; purchased from the above in 1963; thence by descent

Exhibited

Sali Herman Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 June - 26 July 1981, cat. 80 (bears label on reverse)
The D. R. Sheumack Collection of Australian Paintings, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 17 May - 12 June 1983, cat. 44

Literature

Daniel Thomas, Sali Herman, Sydney: Collins, 1971, p. 112, pl. 48 (illus.)
Barry Pearce (ed.), Sali Herman Retrospective, Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1981, p. 73 (illus.)
The D. R. Sheumack Collection of Australian Paintings, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 1983, p. 10 (illus.)
Robyn Christie and Justin Miller, The D. R. Sheumack Collection, Eighty Years of Australian Paintings, Sydney: Sotheby's Australia Pty. Ltd., 1988, pl. 86 (illus.)

Condition

This work is not lined and has the original stretcher. There is an area of cracking that is beginning to lift (approx 6cm in diameter) in the area of brown roof (upper centre). Otherwise the painting is in good condition, however, would benefit from a light clean.
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