(ABSTRACT), 1953

Part 1: Important Fine Art
Melbourne
28 November 2012
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ROBERT KLIPPEL

(1920 - 2001)
(ABSTRACT), 1953

oil, lacquer and ink on paper

37.0 x 57.5 cm

signed and dated lower centre: Robert Klippel 1953
bears inscription verso: PAINTED BY ROBERT KLIPPEL / (AUSTRALIAN SCULPTOR) / PRESENTED TO ZUMA + HENRY BOYD / ORCHID SOCIETY; SYDNEY, AUST

Estimate: 
$6,500 - 9,000
Sold for $8,400 (inc. BP) in Auction 27 - 28 November 2012, Melbourne
Provenance

Zuma and Henry Boyd collection, Sydney
Watters Gallery, Sydney (label attached verso)
Private collection, Brisbane

Related works

This work relates closely to a group of paintings from early 1954 in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, catalogued and illus. in Gleeson, J., Robert Klippel, Bay Books, Sydney, 1983, S 194–200, pp. 194–196