WOMAN IN A GARDEN, c.1981

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
1 December 2022
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CONSTANCE STOKES

(1906 - 1991)
WOMAN IN A GARDEN, c.1981

oil on composition board

53.5 x 45.0 cm

signed lower right: Constance Stokes 

Estimate: 
$10,000 – $15,000
Sold for $20,864 (inc. BP) in Auction 72 - 1 December 2022, Melbourne
Provenance

Estate of the artist, Melbourne
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne 
Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 2021 

Exhibited

Constance Stokes Retrospective Exhibition, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, 1985, cat. 12 (labels attached verso) 
Constance Stokes, Eastgate Gallery, Melbourne, 30 May – 4 July 1990, cat. 23 
Constance Stokes 1906 – 1991, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 3 March – 19 May 1993, cat. 16 (label attached verso) 
Constance Stokes 1906 – 1991, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 30 November 2021 – 18 March 2022 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 6) 

Literature

Burke, J., Constance Stokes: Retrospective Exhibition, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, 1985, p. 22 (illus.) 
D’Albrera, L. W., Constance Stokes: Art and Life, Hill House, Melbourne, 2015, pp. 156, 159 (illus.)