Waddington's: International Art Auction: Lot 43
Arthur Boyd (1920-1999), 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.
Estimated Price:
CAD30,000 - CAD50,000Realised Price:
CAD221,000
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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. 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".
Estimated Price: CAD30,000 - CAD50,000
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