JOHN PERCEVAL (1923 – 2000) OLD SHIPS AT WILLIAMSTOWN, 1959 (also known as ‘OLD HULKS AT WILLIAMSTOWN’) oil on canvas on composition board 86.5 x 103.0 cm signed lower left: Perceval ESTIMATE: $400,000 – 600,000
PROVENANCE Australian Galleries, Melbourne Miss Cara Black, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1959 Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 24 July 1988, lot 408 (as ‘Boats at Williamstown’) Private collection, Melbourne EXHIBITED John Perceval, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 17 March 1959, cat. 17 John Perceval: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne, 10 July – 26 August 1984, cat. 52, p. 23 John Perceval: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 30 April – 12 July 1992, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 August – 20 September 1992 (label attached verso) LITERATURE Allen, T., John Perceval, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1992, p. 160
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