DEEP AND DISSOLVING VERTICALS OF LIGHT FERRY THE FALL OF MOONSHINE DOWN - SALUTE TO SLESSOR'S FIVE BELLS, 1973

Important Fine Art + Indigenous Art
Melbourne
29 November 2017
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JOHN OLSEN

born 1928
DEEP AND DISSOLVING VERTICALS OF LIGHT FERRY THE FALL OF MOONSHINE DOWN - SALUTE TO SLESSOR'S FIVE BELLS, 1973

watercolour, gouache and ink on paper

54.0 x 68.0 cm

signed, dated and inscribed with title lower right: -Deep & Dissolving Verticals / of light Ferry the fall of / moonshine down / salute to Slessor’s 5 Bells / 73 / John / Olsen

Estimate: 
$8,000 – 12,000
Sold for $18,300 (inc. BP) in Auction 52 - 29 November 2017, Melbourne
Provenance

Private collection
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 17 April 1989, lot 275
Private collection, Melbourne

Related works

Salute to Five Bells, synthetic polymer paint on eight hardwood panels, 2.9 x 21.3 m, north foyer of main concert hall, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, illus. in Hart, D., John Olsen, Craftsman House, Sydney, second edition, 2000, pp. 114 – 115