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December 08, 2009

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LOT 43

Lot 43

Arthur Boyd (1920-1999)

Arthur Boyd (1920-1999)
Lot 43 Details
Arthur Boyd (1920-1999), Australian

THE BRIDE IN THE MOONLIGHT

Oil on masonite; signed lower right, titled to gallery label verso
23.5" x 35.5" — 59.7 x 90.2 cm.

Estimate $30,000-$50,000

Realised: $221,000
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

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Lot Report

Provenance:

Zwemmer Gallery, London;
Boyce Richardson Collection, Ottawa purchased from the above at the exhibition of the artist’s Bride series in the 1960’s

Exhibited:

Zwemmer Gallery, London, No. 16

Note:

Boyce Richardson, Canadian journalist, author and filmmaker, met the artist during his years working as a journalist in London in the 1960’s. Boyce recalls “I bought this piece from the Zwemmer Gallery ... I also have a small ink drawing he gave me when I visited him one day”, referring to the following lot 44 included in this sale.
When Boyce attended the Zwemmer Gallery exhibition of this noted Australian artist he recollects: “It was one of a number of huge paintings, most of them of Aborigines, stark blue, sitting horses. This is a smaller one, and as such was the only one I could afford to buy. It is a very subtle painting of an Aborigine lying under a blanket, surrounded by creatures that can just be made out, as can the man himself. There is a ghostly white face hanging in a patch of moonlight beside the Aborigine”.

CONDITION DETAILS

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