Artworks from the Estate of Judy Cassab by Shapiro Auctioneers

ARTWORKS FROM THE ESTATE OF

JUDY CASSAB

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JUDY CASSAB ao, cbe PART I Artworks

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Shapiro Auctioneers would like to give thanks to the following for their assistance and contributions to the catalogue and preservation of Judy Cassab’s legacy: Rachel Christian Peter Kampfner Lou Klepac Michelle Matic John Seed Anna Waldmann

FRONT COVER

Judy Cassab in her Studio, c. 1955 BACK COVER

Judy’s sons, John and Peter help carry her portrait of Rapotec, her entry in the 1959 Archibald Prize

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by Judy Cassab A Selling Exhibition 24 February – 6 March 2016 No. 1-47 PART II Artworks from the Private Collection of Judy Cassab to be auctioned 11 May 2016 No. 48-87

JUDY CASSAB Most people know Judy Cassab through her celebrated portraits. She was the second woman to win the Archibald prize, and she won it twice, Nora Heysen was the first. Her portrait of Robert Morley is in the Queensland Art Gallery and her portrait of Hugh Gaitskill which is in the National Portrait Gallery, London, has provided her with an international reputation. But Judy Cassab is also a landscape painter, much of it inspired by her annual trips to Alice Springs and Rainbow Valley. The subject soon became hers. Hers has truly been a life in art. She was a child prodigy – having drawn her grandmother with a piece of charcoal at the age of 13, a work which is amazing for its power of observation. Only the signature reveals the hand of a child. It has been a life of difficulties and hardships, but Judy is a great survivor and her joy for living and her passion for painting provided a considerable oeuvre and a positive vision which has given pleasure to countless people. Her feeling for colour, for the lusciousness of pigment, and for the surface of the large sheets of Arches paper on which she works with charcoal and gouache reveal the delight – even ecstasy – of happy moments of creation. Her paintings resonate in one’s memory and introduce us to an enchanted world.

LOU KLEPAC

Art Historian and Publisher February 2008

JUDY CASSAB The 1950s were interesting times in Australian art. Waves of immigrant artists arrived from central and eastern Europe, escaping the horrors of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain: Stanislaw Ostoja – Kotkowski, Maximilian Feuerring, Michael Kmit, Henry Salkauskas, Eva Kubbos, Reinis Zusters, Jan Senbergs, Louis Kahn, Leonard Hessing, Franz Kempf, Udo Sellbach, Jan Riske and others changed the local conservative climate and brought a more sophisticated level of experimental skills and awareness of the international avant-garde. Amongst the newcomers was Judy Cassab, born Judy Kaszab in Vienna, in 1920, to Hungarian parents. In 1929 the Kaszab family returned to Hungary. Between 1939 and 1949 Judy Cassab studied art at the Prague Academy of Art, with Aurel Bernath and Lipot Hermann at the Budapest Academy and at Szentendre, an artist’s colony on the Danube. Her studies were interrupted by Nazi occupation, but she managed to survive by going underground and hiding her Jewish identity by using the name of Maria Koperdak, her maid. Almost everything we may wish to know about Cassab’s life and art is described in Judy Cassab Diaries, published by Random House, Australia in 1995. In it she recalls the beginning of her Australian artistic success: ‘We came to Australia in 1951 with our two boys...We arrived without English or money. But I did have a letter of introduction to a man by the name of Charles Lloyd Jones. When I asked our landlord who this Charles Lloyd Jones actually was, he thought I suffered from delusions of grandeur. I contacted him, and he told me he was being painted by an artist called Dobell. However, he commissioned me to paint his wife. When his son, the young Charles, came to pick me up from the boarding house in a Rolls Royce, all my neighbours hung out of the windows in disbelief.’

Cassab travelled incessantly and painted portraits with the same relentless resolve: from the Maharaja and Maharani of Jaipur, to Prince Michael, the Duke of Kent, to Joan Sutherland, to Justice Elizabeth Evatt. In a 1946 entry in her Diaries she says with naive premonition ‘I don’t dare tell this to anyone, but I feel one day I am going to paint better portraits than anyone. I don’t intend to stop at that point where portraitists usually stop. I am painting seriously and I think I’ve improved.” As Edmund Capon said in the catalogue for the 2003 exhibition Rainbow Valley – the spirit of the place, at the Vasarely Museum, in Budapest, ‘it is people that are both her ultimate inspiration and the constant refreshment of her indomitable spirit.’ If her flair for painting the figure was an advantage, it also proved to be a kind of impediment. Abstract art was in fashion and artist and critic Paul Haefliger chastised her: ‘Do you want to be a fashionable portraitist or do you want to be an artist? Try something you haven’t tried before, for God’s sake. Try abstract.’ Similar instructions came from artist and educator Desiderius Orban who would tell her to stop painting her compositions from the centre outwards, and that she should begin with the edges of the picture plane and move inwards. She said in January 1966 ‘It’s hard when it’s a still life. But when it’s a portrait it’s so incredibly difficult... For the first time in my life, I look for pure form – relationship.’ Generally, a portrait involves background, colour palette and composition balance, the complete and complex idea of a sitter’s likeness and character. Cassab struggled to free her art from her extraordinary ability for likeness. Sometimes she started painting upside down and made a grid over the sketch which she transferred to the canvas. Other times she made a slide of the sketch, projected it onto the canvas in a dark room and traced over the image with charcoal. She painted layers of the foundation with transparent acrylic washes 5

and build up the texture: ‘[I] squared in my crumpled canvas and enlarged on it. Put it on the floor of the plastic drop sheet, gave it a coat of thin acrylic in grey and a breeze of crimson. When it dried...the ochre got a coat of black which I know will behave in a brisk and porous flight into the wrinkles when settling down.’ The beginning of Cassab’s intense affair with the landscape of central Australia happened at the suggestion of Frank Clune, author, gallerist and accountant in early 1953: ‘I felt like Ali Baba discovering the treasure cave. I felt greedy. I wanted it all. I began 14 pictures in a week. I have never experienced such colour. It was like a physical force hitting not only from the front, but sideways and from the back as well.’ In places like Alice Spring, Ormiston George, Emily’s Gap, Glen Helen, Standley Chasm, Simpson’s Gap and Rainbow Valley she began to eliminate the horizon and found genuine immersive abstraction; she found luminous essential colour in translucent washes and chalky charcoal. Arthur Boyd called her landscapes ‘iridescent’ and claimed ‘there are not many painters nowadays who give so much delight’. Judy Cassab was one of Australia’s best known portrait painters, the winner of many prestigious art awards including twice the Archibald Prize, a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her service to the visual arts, an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), and was a Trustee of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Following the publication of her diaries in 1995, Sydney University conferred upon her the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters. In 1996 she won the Nita B. Kibble Award for women writers. Painter, woman, immigrant, all the elements seemed lined up for failure, however Judy Cassab became a much admired and loved artist. She made art seem approachable, deceptively easy, casual and yet transformative. Over many decades she produced an engagement with direct or oblique representation enhanced by an emotional link with personal histories, creative exploration and great generosity of spirit.

ANNA WALDMANN

Anna Waldmann is an art consultant, on the executive of the Art Consultants Association of Australia, chair of the Art Committee of Glenorchy Art & Sculpture Park in Hobart and a Councillor on the University of Sydney Power Institute for Art & Visual Culture Foundation.

Judy Cassab was destined to become a renowned painter, recognised, rewarded and an inspiration to others. Her husband, Jansci Kampfner, gave her immeasurable support in her artistic journey. Before long, she was travelling alone to fulfil outstanding commissions in portraiture, which included the Queen of Thailand, princess Alexandria in London, a Maharajah in India, and my husband Sir Nicholas Shehadie, former Lord Mayor of Sydney, whose fine portrait is held in the Sydney Town Hall. Indeed, Judy’s sensitive artistic interpretations brought accolades of the highest level in our society: 1970 and 1967 – Winner of the Archibald Prize twice 1969 – Commander of the British Empire (CBE) 1988 – Order of Australia (AO) 1995 – University of Sydney Honorary Doctor of Letters 1996 – Winner of the Nita B. Kibble Award for Women Writers 2011 – Hungary’s Gold Cross of Merit She was acclaimed as an artist of an extraordinary range of commitment and talent. Indeed, as John McDonald, art critic, has said, “one of the best loved of all Australian artists.”

She was Director of Visual Arts at the Australia Council and a curator at the Art Gallery of NSW.

PROFESSOR THE HONOURABLE DAME MARIE BASHIR AD, CVO

January 2016

Delivered at the memorial service for the late Judy Cassab AO, CBE November 2015

PART I Artworks

by Judy Cassab A Selling Exhibition 24 February – 6 March 2016 No. 1–47

1 JUDY CASSAB

2 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015)

YESTERYEAR, 1998

SANDSTONE CAVE , COONABARABRAN

watercolour on paper, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, ’98’

oil on canvas on board, titled verso ‘Sandstone Cave, Coonabarabran’

54 x 74 cm

75 x 105 cm

PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

3 JUDY CASSAB

4 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015)

MA X ERNST ON POMPIDOU TERRACE & PARIS HOUSES, 1991

MOUNTAIN AND LOVERS, 1989

pastel and watercolour on paper, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, ’91’

oil on canvas, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, ’89’, titled verso ‘Mountain and Lovers’ Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD226’

73 x 50 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

111 x 85 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra

5 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015) INDIAN TEMPLE , 2003

oil on board, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, 2003’, inscribed, titled and dated verso ‘Judy Cassab, 2003, Indian Temple’ Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD154’

PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra Celebrating 60 Years since Judy Cassab’s first Australian Exhibition, Mossgreen Art Gallery, Melbourne March 1–31, 2014

6 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015) SLEEPING GIRL , 1987

oil on canvas on board, signed l.r.c. ‘Cassab ’87’, titled verso ‘Sleeping Girl’ 85 x 96 cm

PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Celebrating 60 Years since Judy Cassab’s first Australian Exhibition, Eva Breuer, Woollahra, November 16 2013 – March, 2014 Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra

58 x 67 cm

7 8

7 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015)

NYMPH AND FAUN

STILL LIFE WITH BUDDHA , 2006

ink on paper, signed lower l.l.c. ‘Cassab’ Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD105’

oil on board, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, ’06’, titled verso ‘Still Life with Buddha’ Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘CAR9571’

56 x 76 cm PROVENANCE

Cromwell’s Sydney, Fine Australian Paintings, Sydney, 02/04/2003, Lot No. 21, The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra

8 JUDY CASSAB

42 x 50.5 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Celebrating 60 Years since Judy Cassab’s first Australian Exhibition, Eva Breuer, Woollahra, November 16 2013 – March, 2014 Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra 17

9 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015) ANNA WALDMANN, 1982

oil on canvas, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, ’82’, titled verso ‘Anna Waldmann, 1982’ inscribed verso ‘For John Seed’ Greythorn Galleries, Melbourne stock number ‘7668’, Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD168’ 110 x 86 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Greythorn Galleries, Melbourne Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra LITERATURE

Lou Klepac, Judy Cassab – Artists and Friends, The Beagle Press, Sydney 1988, plate 24, p 56

10 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015) WALKERS AND MOUNTAIN, 1988

oil on canvas on board, signed l.r.c. ‘Cassab, ’88’, titled verso ‘Walkers and Mountain’ Label verso: Holdsworth Galleries, Paddington Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD231’ 135 x 90 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

11 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015) RUSHING WATERS BALD ROCK , 2000

oil on board, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, 2000’ Label verso: Greythorn Galleries, Melbourne Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD105’ 54 x 94 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra 10

12 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015) STILL LIFE WITH SCULPTURE , 2008

oil on canvas, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, ’08’, titled verso ‘Still Life with Sculpture’ Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD127’ 60 x 45 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra Celebrating 60 Years since Judy Cassab’s first Australian Exhibition, Mossgreen Art Gallery, Melbourne, March 1–31, 2014

13 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015) BEFORE THE STORM, 1988

oil on board, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab ’88’, titled verso ‘Before the Storm’ Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD41’ 45 x 36 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

14 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015) BRIAN SEIDEL , 1996

EXHIBITED

Celebrating 60 Years since Judy Cassab’s first Australian Exhibition, Eva Breuer, Woollahra, November 16 2013 – March, 2014

acrylic and oil on canvas Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD216’ 127 x 114 cm

PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Judy Cassab Essentially Australian, A Maitland Regional Art Gallery Touring Exhibition Celebrating 60 Years since Judy Cassab’s first Australian Exhibition, Eva Breuer, Woollahra, November 16 2013 – March, 2014 LITERATURE

Lou Klepac, Judy Cassab – Portraits of Artists and Friends, The Beagle Press, Sydney 1998, plate 65, p 109 13

15 JUDY CASSAB

16 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015)

PILLAR OF SALT RAINBOW VALLEY, 1996

MEMORIES OF RAINBOW VALLEY, 1999/2000

mixed media on paper, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, ’96’, titled and dated verso ‘Pillar of Salt, Rainbow Valley, 1996’

oil on canvas, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, 1999– 2000’, titled verso ‘Memories of Rainbow Valley’ Label verso: Solander Gallery, ACT

76 x 102 cm

122 x 152 cm

PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Solander Gallery, ACT

17 JUDY CASSAB

18 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015)

SITTING AND STANDING FIGURE , 1988

ROBERT JUNIPER, 1987

oil on canvas, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, ’88’, titled verso ‘Sitting and Standing Figure’ Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD195’

oil on canvas, signed l.r.c. ‘Cassab, ’87’, inscribed verso for Peter Kampfner, Judy Cassab, 1990’ Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD164’

105 x 75 cm

99 x 71 cm

PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra LITERATURE

Lou Klepac, Judy Cassab – Artists and Friends, The Beagle Press, Sydney 1988, plate 24, p 56

PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra

19 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015) COLIN LANCELEY, 1994

acrylic and oil on canvas, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, ’94’, inscribed verso ‘For Colin Lanceley, Peter Kampfner, 1994, Judy Cassab’ Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD159’ 128 x 103 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra LITERATURE

Lou Klepac, Judy Cassab – Portraits of Artists and Friends, The Beagle Press, Sydney 1998, plate 53, p 90 19

20 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015) AZ OROK , SENTINEL GIRRAWEEN, 2000

oil on canvas on board, signed l.r.c. ‘Cassab, 2000’, titled verso ‘Az Orok, Sentinel Girraween’

107 x 76 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Judy Cassab, Rainbow Valley – the spirit of the place, Vasarely Museum Budapest 2 October – 2 November, 2003, Australian Embassy Berlin, 7 November – 7 December, 2003 Australian Embassy Dublin December, 2003 cat no. 22

21 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015) GEMINI, 1991

oil on board, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, ’91’ 151 x 97 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

22 JUDY CASSAB

24 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015)

STILL LIFE WITH BRASS POT, 2008

AT THE RIVER, INDIA , 2007

oil on board, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, ’08’ Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD197’

oil on board, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, ’07’, titled and dated verso ‘At the River, India, ’07’ Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD134’

60 x 49.5 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra

75 x 59.5 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra

23 JUDY CASSAB

25 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015)

CLIMBING THE SANDSTONE CAVES, 2000

MARGARET FINK , 1987

oil on canvas on board, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, 2000’ Greythorn Galleries, Melbourne Stock number ‘7651’

oil on canvas, signed and dated l.l.c. ‘Cassab, ’87’, inscribed verso ‘For John Seed, Judy Cassab, 1990’

68 x 90 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

95.5 x 63 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Judy Cassab Essentially Australian, A Maitland Regional Art Gallery Touring Exhibition LITERATURE

Lou Klepac, Judy Cassab – Artists and Friends, The Beagle Press, Sydney 1988, plate 39, p 77 Lou Klepac, Judy Cassab – Portraits of Artists and Friends, The Beagle Press, Sydney 1998, plate 29, p 54

26 JUDY CASSAB

28 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015)

WAVE-CAVE , COONABARABRAN, 2000

VANISHING LIGHT – RAINBOW VALLEY, 1997

oil on canvas on board, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, 2000’, titled verso ‘Wave-Cave, Coonabarabran’

gouache on paper, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, ’97’, titled verso ‘Vanishing Light’ Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD209’

74 x 102 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

76 x 102 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Judy Cassab Essentially Australian, A Maitland Regional Art Gallery Touring Exhibition

27 JUDY CASSAB

29 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015)

INDIAN COURTYARD, 2006

SURVIVING CATHEDRAL , 1990

oil on canvas on board, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, ’06’ Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD237’

oil on board, signed and dated lower right ‘Cassab ’90’

76 x 100 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra

108 x 83 cm PROVENANCE

Shapiro Auctioneers, Art & Design 1880–1980 (Art only), Sydney, 07/12/2010, Lot No. 249 The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Celebrating 60 Years since Judy Cassab’s first Australian Exhibition, Mossgreen Art Gallery, Melbourne, March 1-31, 2014

30 JUDY CASSAB

32 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015)

STILL LIFE WITH WHITE LILIES

PERSONAGE ORMISTON, 1992

oil on canvas, signed l.r.c. ‘Cassab, titled verso ‘Still Life With White Lilies’ Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD119’

acrylic and oil on canvas on board, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, ’92’, titled verso ‘Personage Ormiston’ Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD33’

39 x 30 cm

55.5 x 45 cm

PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

EXHIBITED

Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra

Celebrating 60 Years since Judy Cassab’s first Australian Exhibition, Eva Breuer, Woollahra, November 16 2013 – March, 2014

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31 JUDY CASSAB

33 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015)

NUDE WITH YELLOW LILIES, 2000

WINTER, TASMANIA , 1987

oil on board, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, 2000’, titled verso ‘Nude with Yellow Lilies’ Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘13369’

oil on board, signed l.r.c. ‘Cassab’, titled verso ‘Winter Tasmania’ Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD44’

30.5 x 53.5 cm

37 x 53 cm

PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

EXHIBITED

Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra

34 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015) HANDS ON EACH OTHERS SHOULDERS, 1974

ink on paper, signed l.l.c. ‘Cassab’ 72 x 59 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

35 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015) CHARLES BLACKMAN, 2002

oil on canvas on board, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, 2002’ Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD150’ 33 x 29 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Celebrating 60 Years since Judy Cassab’s first Australian Exhibition, Eva Breuer, Woollahra November 16 2013 – March, 2014 35

36 JUDY CASSAB

37 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015)

MARGARET WOODWARD DRAWING IN A BOOK , 1994

OPERA HOUSE AND BALCONY, 2001

oil on paper, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, ’94’

oil on paper, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, 2001’

45 x 28 cm

36 x 27 cm

PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

38 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015)

APPROACHING RED CANYON, FRASER ISLAND, 2000

REFLECTION IN A FOREST, 2001

oil on paper, signed and dated l.r.c ‘Cassab, 2000’ titled verso ‘Approaching Red Canyon, Fraser Island’ Australian Galleries, Sydney, Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD71’

oil on paper, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, ’01’, titled verso ‘Reflection in a Forest’ Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD107’

27 x 36 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Fraser Island and Byron 3–28 April, 2001, Australian Galleries, Sydney Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra

40 JUDY CASSAB

26 x 34 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

EXHIBITED

Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra

41 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015) MONIK ARNIK A GHAT, 2002

watercolour and pencil on paper, titled, signed and dated l.l.c. ‘Monikarnika Ghat, Cassab, 2002, titled verso ‘Monikarnika Ghat’ Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD70’ 39 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015) AGRA , 2002

watercolour and pencil on paper, titled l.l.c. ‘Agra’, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, 2002’, titled verso ‘Agra’ Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD112’ 29.5 x 20 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra

29 x 19.5 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra 41

42 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015) UNTITLED (BROWN CRAYON DRAWING OF NUDE SITTING), 2004

crayon on paper, signed l.r.c. ‘Cassab, ’04’ Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘13421’ 38 x 29 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra 39

43 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015)

SIESTA IN STRIPED SHIRT, 2008

COFFEE AT MUSEE D’ORSAY, 1997

ink on paper, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, ’08’ Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD102’

etching edition 33/50, numbered, titled, signed and dated below image ‘33/50, Coffee at Musee D’Orsay, Cassab, ’97’ Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘13433’

25.5 x 34.5 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab 43

46 JUDY CASSAB

EXHIBITED

Celebrating 60 Years since Judy Cassab’s first Australian Exhibition, Eva Breuer, Woollahra, November 16 2013 – March 2014

29.5 x 24.5 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra

44 JUDY CASSAB 46

(1920–2015) FLOATING SCULPTURE OUTSIDE MUSEE POMPIDOU, 1990

monotype, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab 90’, titled verso ‘Floating Sculpture Outside Musee Pompidou’ Holdsworth Galleries, Paddington, Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD185’ 75 x 57 cm PROVENANCE

47 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015)

The Estate of Judy Cassab

GROUP RIVER AND GAZEBO, BALI, 1988

EXHIBITED

charcoal and watercolour on paper, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab, ’88’ Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD94’

Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra

45 JUDY CASSAB

(1920–2015) VIEW FROM THE MUSEE PICASSO, 1989

monotype, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Cassab 89’, titled verso ‘View from the Musee Picasso’ Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra stock number ‘EBAD184’

53 x 73 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Eva Breuer, Art Gallery, Woollahra 47

75 x 57 cm PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

PART II A rtworks

from the Private Collection of Judy Cassab to be auctioned 11 May 2016 No. 48–87 PLEASE NOTE THE NUMBERS MAY CHANGE IN THE AUCTION CATALOGUE

48 49

48 MAREA GAZZARD

49 SIDNEY NOLAN

(1928–2013)

(1917–1992)

DIAL , 1966

WATERLILY SERIES #11, 1975

hand built stoneware signed and dated to base ‘Gazzard, ’66’ Copyright courtesy of Utopia Art, Sydney

spray enamel on masonite, signed verso ‘Nolan 1975’

61 x 51 cm

$10,000–15,000

$6,000–9,000 PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab LITERATURE

150 x 120 cm

PROVENANCE

Lord McAlpine of West Green, Shapiro Auctioneers: Tuesday, December 3, 2002, Lot 10 Modern & Contemporary Art; The Estate of Judy Cassab

Christine France, Marea Gazzard, Form and Clay, 1994 G+B Arts International Limited / Craftsman House p. 53 42

50 ARTHUR MERRIC BLOOMFIELD BOYD

51 CHARLES BLACKMAN

(1920–1999)

(b. 1928)

WIMMERA LANDSCAPE WITH LAKE , COCK ATOOS AND BLACKBIRDS

TABLE AND FIGURE

oil on board, signed l.r.c. ‘Arthur Boyd’

oil on board, signed u.l.c. ‘Blackman’

91 x 121 cm

132 x 178 cm

$80,000–120,000

$60,000–90,000

PROVENANCE

Private collection, UK, Phillips De Pury & Company, Decorative & Fine Arts, Sydney, 27/11/2000, Lot No. 79 The Estate of Judy Cassab

Gifted by the artist The Estate of Judy Cassab

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52 STANISLAUS IVAN (STAN) RAPOTEC

53 ELWYN LYNN

(1913–1997)

(1917–1997)

TENSION

BOW, 1965

oil on board, signed l.r.c. ‘Rapotec’, titled and signed verso ‘Tension by S. Rapotec’

mixed media on canvas, titled, signed and dated verso ‘Bow, Elwyn Lynn, May 1965’

183 x 137.5 cm

92 x 112 cm

$6,000–9,000

$3,000–5,000

PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

54 LOUIS JAMES

(1920–1996) GARDEN WITH FIGURES (2), 1968

acrylic on board, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Louis James 68’, inscribed with title, signed and dated verso ‘Garden with Figures (2), Louis James Mar. 1 68’ 32 x 20 cm $600–900 PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

55 DESIDERIUS ORBAN

(1884–1986) INSIDE SIENA , 1966

mixed media on carved hardboard, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Desiderius Orban 1966’ Label verso: The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Desiderius Orban Retrospective Exhibition 61.5 x 45.5 cm

56 ANDREW SIBLEY

$800–1,200

(1933–2015)

PROVENANCE

THE CONVERSATION, 1991

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Desiderius Orban Retrospective Exhibition, November 6 – December 7, 1975, cat. # 98

watercolour and ink, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Sibley 91’, titled verso ‘The Conversation’ 76 x 55 cm $1,500–2,500 PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab 55

57 KEVIN CONNOR

(b.1932)

(Spanish, 1913–2005)

AFTERNOON NEAR BROADWAY, 1986

THE KING OF CARDS, (ROI AU FOND ROUGE), C. 1957

oil on canvas, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Connor, ’86’, inscribed, titled and dated verso ‘Kevin Connor, Afternoon Near Broadway, 1986’

mixed media and oil on paper laid down on board, signed and titled verso on tag ‘Roi Au Fond Rouge, Clave’, also inscribed verso ‘Antoni Clave (S 34) The King of Cards’ and ‘Gift from An Clave 25-8-58’ Label verso: from Youngs Pty Ltd, detailing exhibiting history and Mrs and Mrs Oscar Edwards Collection

89.5 x 89.5 cm $2,000–3,000 PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

58 ANTONI CLAVÉ

PROVENANCE

The Collection of Mr and Mrs Oscar Edwards, The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Famous Painters from Private Collections, Hichs Atkinsons Gallery Melbourne c. 1960s REFERENCE

A certificate of authenticity issued by Archives Antoni Clavé will be delivered to the buyer

77 x 55 cm $8,000–12,000

59 ELWYN LYNN

(1917–1997) STONE GARDEN, 1988

mixed media on paper, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Elwyn Lynn, 20 April 1988’ 41 x 32 cm $600–900 PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

60 NANCY BORLASE

(1914–2006) NUDE AND LANDSCAPE

oil on canvas, initialled l.r.c. ‘NB’

36 x 48 cm $600–800 PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

61 CHARLES BLACKMAN

(b. 1928) SKETCH OF JUDY CASSAB, 2009

ink on paper, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Charles Blackman, 2009’ 35 x 27.5 cm $1,200–1,800 PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

Celebrating 60 Years since Judy Cassab’s first Australian Exhibition, Eva Breuer, Woollahra, November 16 2013 – March 2014 52

62 WILLIAM NELSON COPLEY

(American, 1919–1996)

(French/Russian, 1887–1985)

UNTITLED, C. 1961

LE THÉ DU MATIN, PL . 18, FROM LES AMES MORTES

watercolour and ink on paper collage on fabric with lace inscribed verso ‘Sir Roland (?) Penrose’

etching and aquatint, plate 18 from Nicolai Gogol’s Les Ames Mortes (The Dead Souls) published in 1948 by Teriade Paris, initially commissioned by Ambroise Vollard Label verso: Art Gallery of New South Wales Registration

12 x 22 cm $3,000–5,000 PROVENANCE

William Copley—Paintings, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England The Estate of Judy Cassab EXHIBITED

William Copley—Paintings, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England, 1961 54

63 MARC CHAGALL

24 x 31 cm $1,000–2,000 PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

66 65

64 K ATHE KOLLWITZ

65 JOHN COBURN

66 NORA HEYSEN

(German, 1867–1945)

(1925–2006)

(1911–2003)

FRAUENKOPF, 1905

UNTITLED, 1963

PENS AND PENCILS, 2006

later edition soft-ground etching, stamped with artists signature l.r.c. ‘Kollwitz’

watercolour on paper, signed l.r.c. ‘Coburn’, dated l.l.c. ‘1963’

plate: 23 x 13.5 cm

19 x 14 cm

etching, inscribed l.l.c. ‘From Lou Klepac’, inscribed l.r.c. ‘by Nora Heysen’, titled below image ‘Pens and Pencils 2006’

$1,000–2,000

$600–800

PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

plate: 7.5 x 5.5 cm $300–500

Reference: Klipstein 76V

PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

67 THOMAS GLEGHORN

(b. 1925) ABSTRACT, 1963

acrylic on board, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Gleghorn 63’ 53 x 73 cm $1,000–1,500 PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

68 JOHN PEARSON

(American, b. 1940) MONDRIAN LINEAR SERIES/STUDY, 1977

gouache and pencil on paper, titled l.l.c. ‘Mondrian Linear Series/Study’, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘J Pearson 77’, inscribed with artist’s name verso

60 x 23 cm $400–600 PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

69 AFRO

(Italian, 1912–1976) ABSTRACT, 1951

watercolour on paper, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Afro, ’51’ 13 x 6 cm (approximate overall) $2,000–3,000 PROVENANCE

Gift of the Artist, Milan 1953 The Estate of Judy Cassab

72 ROBERT JUNIPER

(1929–2012) JUDY CASSAB

oil on board, signed l.r.c. ‘Juniper’ 57 x 37 cm $1,000–1,500 PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

73 KEVIN CONNOR

(b.1932) MAN & DOG, 2005

gouache and ink on paper, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Man & Dog 05 Kevin (Connor)’, with inscription verso ‘For Judy with Love Kevin 15.8.05’

30 x 41 cm 70 ELWYN LYNN

71 MARGARET WOODWARD

1917–1997)

(b. 1938)

ORCHARD 1977

THE GIRLS AT THE WINDOW, 1991

mixed media collage on paper, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Elwyn Lynn 12 February 1977’, also inscribed verso ‘Elwyn Lynn, Orchard, 12/2/77’

oil and mixed media on board, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Woodward, ’91’, titled verso ‘The Girls At The Window’

55 x 76 cm

57 x 120.5 cm

$400–600

$800–1,200

PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

$700–900 PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab 73

74 ELWYN LYNN

76 KEVIN CONNOR

(1917–1997)

(b.1932)

FOR YONCHI, 1992

STUDY FOR FIGURE AT GARE DU NORD PARIS, 1996

mixed media collage on paper, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Elwyn Lynn 5.11.92’, also inscribed ‘For YonchiHappy Ninetieth Birthday, 5.11.92, Jack Libby and Victoria’

ink on paper, titled l.l.c. ‘Study for figure at Gare du Nord Paris’, signed and dated l.r.c. ’96 Connor’

30 x 35.5 cm

$500–800

$300–500

42 x 58 cm

PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab 76

75 MARGARET WOODWARD

77 PAUL HAEFLIGER

(b. 1938)

(1914–1982)

GIRL IN A HAT

GROUP OF FIGURES, 1971

ink on paper, signed l.r.c. ‘Woodward’

mixed media on paper, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Haefliger 71’

33 x 25.5 cm $300–500

37 x 50 cm $600–800

PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

78 HAL MISSINGHAM

(1906–1994) SEAGULL ON CLIFF, 1974

watercolour on paper, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Missingham, ’74’ 35 x 35 cm $400–600 PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

79 OSCAR EDWARDS

(1905–1996)

THE COPLEY GIRL , 1961

mixed media collage, signed and dated l.r.c. with monogram ‘OE, ‘Ply61’, inscribed with title and signed verso ‘The Copley Girl, Homage to Bill Copley, Collage, Oscar Edwards’ further inscribed ‘Best wishes for your future happiness from Cherie and Oscar’ 34 x 51 cm $500–700 79

PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

80 KEVIN CONNOR

(b.1932) UNTITLED – FOUR ETCHINGS 1994

drypoint etching, edition A/P, each numbered, signed and dated below image ‘A/P, Connor, ’94’ (4) 32 x 22.5 cm each $400–600 PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

81 GEORGE MOLNAR

83 NORA HEYSEN

(1910–1998)

(1911–2003)

MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD: 1914–1920 DISCOVERY OF ART

STANDING FIGURE

watercolour and ink, signed l.l.c. ‘Molnar pixit’, titled l.l.c. ‘Memories of Childhood: 1914–1920 Discovery of Art

conte on paper, signed l.c. ‘Nora Heysen’, inscribed across l.c. ‘For Judy with affection. Thanks Nora’

27 x 37.5 cm

32.5 x 24 cm $600–800

$400–600 PROVENANCE PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

The Estate of Judy Cassab 81

82 OSCAR EDWARDS

(1905–1996) 83

VENICE 1957; ABSTRACT

collage, mixed media, signed and dated verso ‘Oscar Edwards, Venice 8/57; signed with monogram l.r.c. ‘OE’ (2) 20 x 13.5 cm; 21 x 50 cm $400–600 PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

84 KEVIN CONNOR

(b.1932) MEN IN WELL CUT SUITS, 2004

ink on card, titled and dated l.l.c. ‘Men in Well Cut Suits 2/7/04’, signed l.r.c. ‘Connor’, inscribed verso ‘For Judy, Happy Birthday 15/8/04 with our love Kevin + Margaret’ 58 x 41.5 cm

82a

$600–800 PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

82b

85 GEORGE MOLNAR

(1910–1998) PURGATORIUM SECOND CLASS

watercolour, signed l.l.c. ‘Molnar’, titled l.r.c. ‘Purgatorium Second Class. Francois Jules Archibald Esq sentenced to view all pictures of his competition’ 36 x 50.5 cm $400–600 PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab 85

86 BRETT McMAHON

(b. 1966) ABSTRACT, 1991

acrylic on paper, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘B McMahon 91’

25 x 20 cm $300–500 PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

87 CHARLES BLACKMAN

(b. 1928) GIRL WITH RABBIT, 2002

mixed media, signed and dated l.r.c ‘Blackman, 13/1/2002’ 36 x 26 cm $800–1,200 86

PROVENANCE

The Estate of Judy Cassab

ARTIST INDEX AFRO

51, 61, 87 60 BOYD, ARTHUR 50 CASSAB, JUDY 1–47 CHAGALL , MARC 63 CLAVÉ , ANTONI 58 COBURN, JOHN 65 CONNOR, KEVIN 57, 73, 76, 80, 84 COPLEY, WILLIAM NELSON 62 EDWARDS, OSCAR 79, 82 GA ZZARD, MAREA 48 GLEGHORN, THOMAS 67 HAEFLIGER, PAUL 77 HEYSEN, NORA 66, 83 JAMES, LOUIS 54 JUNIPER, ROBERT 72 KOLLWITZ , K ATHE 64 LYNN, ELW YN 53, 59, 70, 74 McMAHON, BRETT 76 MISSINGHAM, HAL 78 MOLNAR, GEORGE 81, 85 NOLAN, SIDNEY 49 ORBAN, DESIDERIUS 55 PEARSON, JOHN 68 RAPOTEC, STANISLAUS 52 SIBLEY, ANDREW 56 WOODWARD, MARGARET 71, 75 BLACKMAN, CHARLES BORLASE , NANCY

COPYRIGHT CREDITS NO. 51, 61, 87 NO. 50 NO. 1-47 NO. 63 NO. 58 NO. 65 NO. 62 NO. 48 NO. 54 NO. 51 NO. 64 NO. 53, 59, 70, 74 NO. 49 NO. 52 NO. 56 NO. 71, 75

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