CORNSIFTING, SOOCHOW, 1945 - 47

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
22 November 2023
5

IAN FAIRWEATHER

(1891 - 1974)
CORNSIFTING, SOOCHOW, 1945 - 47

gouache and pencil on paper

36.0 x 31.0 cm

signed lower right: I Fairweather
bears inscription verso: 27
 

Estimate: 
AU$80,000 – $120,000
Sold for $98,182 (inc. BP) in Auction 76 - 22 November 2023, Sydney
Provenance

Redfern Gallery, London 
The Skinner Collection, Perth, acquired from the above
Thence by descent 
Private collection, Perth 

Exhibited

Ian Fairweather, Redfern Gallery, London, 28 October – 20 November 1948, cat. 27
Fairweather, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1 October – 27 November 1994; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 17 December 1994 – 19 February 1995; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 March – 7 May 1995, cat. 14 (label attached verso, as 'Corn sifting, Soochow (Shanghai)')
ORIENTing: Ian Fairweather in Western Australian Collections, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth, 4 May - 13 July 2013

Literature

Bail, M., Hemisphere: An Asian Australian Magazine, vol. 27, no. 1, July/August 1982, p. 54 (illus.)
Bail, M., Fairweather, Murdoch Books, Sydney, 2009, cat. 62, pl. 54, pp. 71, 79 (illus.), 89, 237, 249
Snell, T. et al., ORIENTing: Ian Fairweather in Western Australian Collections, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth, 2013, fig. 12, pp. 12, 70 (illus.), 100