Lot 24
  • 24

Eric Wilson

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 AUD
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Description

  • Eric Wilson
  • STREET IN SIENA
  • Signed and titled Eric Wilson / Siena (lower right); bears artist's name and title on gallery label on reverse
  • Oil on cardboard
  • 52 by 32.5cm
  • Painted circa 1942-1944

Provenance

Jean Appleton (the artist's widow)
Artarmon Galleries, Sydney
The late Dr and Mrs D. R. Sheumack, Sydney; purchased from the above in 1957; thence by descent

Exhibited

Eric Wilson Memorial Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1947, cat. 59
B. J. Waterhouse Private Collection, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 1955, cat. 7
The D. R. Sheumack Collection of Australian Paintings, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 17 May - 12 June 1983, cat. 109
Eric Wilson, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, 29 July - 28 August 1983, cat. 38 (bears label on reverse)

Literature

Douglas Dundas, 'Eric Wilson', Art and Australia, July - September 1974, vol. 12, no. 1, p. 55 (illus.)
Andrew Sayers, Eric Wilson, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, 1983, p. 45 (illus.), cat. 38
Robyn Christie and Justin Miller, The D. R. Sheumack Collection, Eighty Years of Australian Paintings, Sydney: Sotheby's Australia Pty. Ltd., 1988, pl. 100 (illus.)

Condition

There are scattered areas of flyspotting across the surface of the picture. The work is otherwise in good stable condition, however, would benefit from a light clean.
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