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Toss Woollaston 'Seated Woman (Edith) with Landscape'
Estimate:
$45,000 - $65,000
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$65,000
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187 Important Paintings & Contemporary Art: including the Fairfield Trust Collection, Wellington
ARTIST
Toss Woollaston
Description
Toss Woollaston
Seated Woman (Edith) with Landscape
oil on board
signed and dated ’55 (lower right); title inscribed verso; original Govett-Brewster and Manawatu Art Gallery exhibition labels affixed verso
905 x 575mm

Exhibited
‘The Group Show’, Christchurch, 12 November - 27 November 1955, Cat No. 93.
‘MT Woollaston: Works 1933-1973’, Manawatu Art Gallery, 1973, Cat. No. 52 (touring nationally).

Illustrated
Gregory O’Brien, Lands and Deeds: Profiles of Contemporary New Zealand Painters (Godwit Publishing, 1996), p. 12.

Provenance
Collection of Ron O’Reilly.
Purchased from Webb’s Auckland, 1995.
The Fairfield Trust Collection.