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Tony Fomison 'Blue Self Portrait'
Estimate:
$90,000 - $130,000
Passed
Live Auction
200 Important Paintings & Contemporary Art
ARTIST
Tony Fomison
Description
Tony Fomison
Blue Self Portrait
oil on canvas
title inscribed, signed and dated March 1977 and inscribed Cat No. 174 verso; original Suter Gallery exhibition, Jens Hansen collection and ‘Fomison: a survey’; exhibition labels affixed verso
224 x 332mm
Reference
Ian Wedde, Fomison: What shall we tell them? (City Gallery, Wellington, 1994), Supplementary Cat. No. 59.
Exhibited
‘Tony Fomison: a survey of his painting and drawing from 1961 to 1979’, October 14 - November 18, 1979.
‘The Self: An Exhibition of Self-Portraits’, City Gallery, Wellington, September 18 - October 22, 1986.
Provenance
Collection of the jeweller, Jens Hoyer Hansen (1940-1999), Nelson. Purchased from Elva Bett Gallery, Wellington, circa 1980. Thence by descent.
Private collection, Auckland.
Blue Self Portrait
oil on canvas
title inscribed, signed and dated March 1977 and inscribed Cat No. 174 verso; original Suter Gallery exhibition, Jens Hansen collection and ‘Fomison: a survey’; exhibition labels affixed verso
224 x 332mm
Reference
Ian Wedde, Fomison: What shall we tell them? (City Gallery, Wellington, 1994), Supplementary Cat. No. 59.
Exhibited
‘Tony Fomison: a survey of his painting and drawing from 1961 to 1979’, October 14 - November 18, 1979.
‘The Self: An Exhibition of Self-Portraits’, City Gallery, Wellington, September 18 - October 22, 1986.
Provenance
Collection of the jeweller, Jens Hoyer Hansen (1940-1999), Nelson. Purchased from Elva Bett Gallery, Wellington, circa 1980. Thence by descent.
Private collection, Auckland.
Condition
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