UP THE ORCHARD, 1946

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
27 August 2014
42

JOHN PASSMORE

(1904 - 1984)
UP THE ORCHARD, 1946

oil on canvas

45.0 x 34.5 cm

signed with initials and dated lower right: JP 46

Estimate: 
$15,000 - 20,000
Sold for $28,800 (inc. BP) in Auction 36 - 27 August 2014, Sydney
Provenance

Private collection, a gift from the artist, 1946
Sotheby's, Melbourne, 25 August 1998, lot 110
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited

John Passmore, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, November – December 1951, cat. 13
Fifty Years of Macquarie Galleries: The Third Decade, 1945–55, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, May 1975, cat. 36
John Passmore Retrospective, 1904–84, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 December 1984 – 10 February 1985, cat. 11. (label attached verso)

Literature

Pearce, B., John Passmore Retrospective 1904–84, Art Gallery of New South Wales and Beagle Press, Sydney, 1985, p. 38 (illus.)