ORANGE ACCENT II, 1960

100 Highlights from the Cbus Collection of Australian Art
Melbourne
27 July 2022
69

PETER UPWARD

(1932 - 1983)
ORANGE ACCENT II, 1960

oil on composition board

61.0 x 45.5 cm

signed and dated lower centre: Upward / 60
bears inscription with title on gallery label verso: PETER UPWARD / ORANGE ACCENT II / $200 / 14 

Estimate: 
$15,000 – $25,000
Sold for $61,364 (inc. BP) in Auction 70 - 27 July 2022, Melbourne
Provenance

Macquarie Galleries, Sydney (label attached verso) 
Private collection
Christie’s, Melbourne, 2 – 3 May 2002, lot 281
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above

Exhibited

Clement Meadmore / Peter Upward, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 31 August – 12 September 1960, cat. 14
Last Acquisitions, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 2 April – 10 July 2016
on long term loan to Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria

Literature

Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 97 (illus.), 236