GIFT HORSE, 1956 (verso: study for THE DRAUGHTSMAN)

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
15 July 2020
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© Estate of Edwin Tanner
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EDWIN TANNER

(1920 – 1980)
GIFT HORSE, 1956 (verso: study for THE DRAUGHTSMAN)

oil on canvas on board

61.5 x 66.0 cm

signed and dated upper left: EDWIN TANNER. 56.

Estimate: 
$18,000 – 24,000
Sold for $23,318 (inc. BP) in Auction 61 - 15 July 2020, Melbourne
Provenance

Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney (label attached verso, stock no. 2650)
Rudy Komon, Sydney (by 1976)
Ray Hughes, Sydney
The Estate of Ray Hughes, Sydney

Exhibited

Edwin Tanner, Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 7 – 24 April 1959, cat. 10
Edwin Tanner, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, 23 June – 10 July 1970, cat. 12
Edwin Tanner Retrospective, The Age Gallery, Melbourne, 18 – 29 October 1976, cat. 80
Edwin Tanner: Works 1952– 1980, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, 15 March – 12 May 1990, cat. 17
Edwin Tanner: Paintings 1952 – 1979, The Hughes Gallery, Sydney, 30 October – 25 November 2014, cat. 22; Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, 12 March – 4 April 2015, cat. 5
Edwin Tanner. Mathematical Expressionist, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria, 12 May – 15 July 2018

Literature

Duncan, J., Edwin Tanner Works 1952–1980, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, 1990, pp. 14 (illus.) 18, 25
Hemingway, B., and Nodrum, C., Edwin Tanner: Paintings 1952 – 1979, The Estate of Edwin Tanner in association with The Hughes Gallery, Sydney & Charles Nodrum Gallery Melbourne, 2014, pp. 24 – 25 (illus.)
Fitzpatrick, A., Edwin Tanner. Mathematical Expressionist, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria, 2018, pp. 22, 103 (illus.), 132