FAUN AND NYMPH, 1924

Important Australian and International Fine Art
Sydney
10 May 2017
31

RAYNER HOFF

(1894 – 1937)
FAUN AND NYMPH, 1924

bronze

26.5 x 29.0 x 13.0 cm

signed and dated on base: 1924 G. RAYNER HOFF.

Estimate: 
$15,000 – 20,000
Sold for $54,900 (inc. BP) in Auction 49 - 10 May 2017, Sydney
Provenance

Estate of Norman Lindsay, Faulconbridge, New South Wales
Thence by descent
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited

Australian Academy of Art 1938, Vickery's Galleries, Sydney, 08 April – 29 April 1938 (another example)
Sculpture of Rayner Hoff: Memorial Exhibition, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, 19 May – 04 June 1938 (another example)
Australian Academy of Art and the Contemporary Art Society (1986), S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 15 May – 16 July 1986 (another example)
Stampede of the Lower Gods: Classical Mythology in Australian Art 1890's-1930's, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 October – 26 November 1989 (another example)
'This vital flesh': the sculpture of Rayner Hoff and his school, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 26 November 1999 – 16 January 2000 (another example)