CANAL, FOOCHOW, 1945 - 47

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
22 November 2023
6

IAN FAIRWEATHER

(1891 - 1974)
CANAL, FOOCHOW, 1945 - 47

gouache on paper

37.0 x 39.5 cm

signed lower right: I Fairweather

Estimate: 
AU$90,000 – $120,000
Sold for $98,182 (inc. BP) in Auction 76 - 22 November 2023, Sydney
Provenance

Redfern Gallery, London (label attached verso)
The Skinner Collection, Perth, acquired from the above 19 December 1953 
Thence by descent 
Private collection, Perth 

Exhibited

Ian Fairweather, Redfern Gallery, London, 28 October – 20 November 1948, cat. 19
ORIENTing: Ian Fairweather in Western Australian Collections, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth, 4 May - 13 July 2013

Literature

Bail, M., Ian Fairweather, Bay Books, Sydney, 1981, fig. 36, cat. 75, pp. 88 (illus.), 236
Snell, T. et al., ORIENTing: Ian Fairweather in Western Australian Collections, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth, 2013, fig. 14, pp. 12, 72 (illus.), 100