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Gordon Walters 'Surrealist Compositions'
Estimate:
$6,000 - $10,000
Passed
Live Auction
178: Theo Schoon : An Outsider Looking in - The Christine Fernyhough Collection
ARTIST
Gordon Walters
Description
Gordon Walters
Surrealist Compositions
five small format vintage gelatin silver prints
titles and artwork dimensions (in inches), medium and colour notes inscribed in ink to the verso in the artist’s hand and dated 1943/44
dimensions variable, the largest 108 x 133mm, the smallest 91 x 72mm
Illustrated:
Michael Dunn, The Art of Gordon Walters, University of Auckland, PhD thesis, 1985, plates 3 and 9.
Michael Dunn, ‘Frozen Flame & Slain Tree, The Dead Tree Theme in New Zealand Art of the Thirties and Forties’, Art New Zealand, No. 13, Spring 1979, p. 44
Provenance:
Previously in the collection of Professor Emeritus Michael Dunn.
Purchased from Art+Object, 24 February 2016, Lot No. 47.
Surrealist Compositions
five small format vintage gelatin silver prints
titles and artwork dimensions (in inches), medium and colour notes inscribed in ink to the verso in the artist’s hand and dated 1943/44
dimensions variable, the largest 108 x 133mm, the smallest 91 x 72mm
Illustrated:
Michael Dunn, The Art of Gordon Walters, University of Auckland, PhD thesis, 1985, plates 3 and 9.
Michael Dunn, ‘Frozen Flame & Slain Tree, The Dead Tree Theme in New Zealand Art of the Thirties and Forties’, Art New Zealand, No. 13, Spring 1979, p. 44
Provenance:
Previously in the collection of Professor Emeritus Michael Dunn.
Purchased from Art+Object, 24 February 2016, Lot No. 47.
