PORTSEA, 1920

Important Women Artists
Melbourne
10 November 2021
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PENLEIGH BOYD

(1890 - 1923)
PORTSEA, 1920

oil on board

40.5 x 21.5 cm

signed and dated lower right: Penleigh Boyd / 20

Estimate: 
$18,000 – $24,000
Sold for $54,000 (inc. BP) in Auction 65 - 10 November 2021, Melbourne
Provenance

Sedon Galleries, Melbourne (label attached verso)
Private collection, Melbourne
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
Christopher Day Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in 1986
Thence by descent
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited

Colonial and Impressionist Paintings, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, July 1982, cat. 48 (illus. in exhibition catalogue)
A Very Private Collection, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 15 June – 15 July 1990, cat. 6
The Seasons of Australia, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 20 November 1999 – 30 April 2000; and touring, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, 4 February – 19 March 2000; Old Customs House Gallery, Brisbane, 30 March – 30 April 2000 (label attached verso)

Literature

Shirlow, J., ‘Australian Artists. Penleigh Boyd’, The Herald, Melbourne, 30 October 1920, p. 4