STUDIO STILL LIFE No. 2, c.1958

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
15 July 2020
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© The Estate of Michael Shannon
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MICHAEL SHANNON

(1927 – 1993)
STUDIO STILL LIFE No. 2, c.1958

oil on composition board

64.0 x 91.5 cm

signed lower left: Shannon
bears inscription verso: No. 2

Estimate: 
$15,000 – 20,000
Sold for $17,182 (inc. BP) in Auction 61 - 15 July 2020, Melbourne
Provenance

Private collection, Adelaide
Thence by descent
Private collection, United Kingdom

Exhibited

possibly: Michael Shannon, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 24 February 1959, cat. 13 (as ‘Studio Still Life’)
Michael Shannon, Royal S.A. Society of Arts, Adelaide, February – March 1960, cat. 8

Related works

Still Life No. 2, 1957, oil on composition board, 60.0 x 91.5 cm, in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Studio Interior, 1958, oil on composition board, 137.0 x 92.0 cm, in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, illus. in Sturgeon, G., Michael Shannon, Painting and the Poetry of Daily Life, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990, pl.7, pp. 62 – 63 (as ‘The Studio’)