Merryn Schriever
Managing Director, Australia
Lot 61
Harold Bickford(Hal) Hattam (1913-1994)Low Tide Shoreham, c.1972
6 June 2017, 18:30 AEST
Sydney, NCJWASold for AU$3,416 inc. premium
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Harold Bickford (Hal) Hattam (1913-1994)
Low Tide Shoreham, c.1972
inscribed on stretcher bar verso: 'Low Tide Shoreham'
oil on canvas
56.0 x 66.5cm (22 1/16 x 26 3/16in).
inscribed on stretcher bar verso: 'Low Tide Shoreham'
oil on canvas
56.0 x 66.5cm (22 1/16 x 26 3/16in).
Footnotes
PROVENANCE
Eastgate & Holst, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne
EXHIBITED
Hal Hattam: Survey Exhibition 1955 – 1975, Eastgate & Holst, Melbourne, 12-28 October 2005, cat. 12
'Hal Hattam played many roles in the Melbourne art world. Together with his wife, Kate, he was the friend and patron of artist's and the collector of their work. As a leading obstetrician and gynaecologist, he delivered many of their babies. The role he longed for and sought most earnestly in the last decade of his life was that of artist. It was hardly surprising. Hal Hattam had spent much of his adult life in close contact with some of the most gifted artists of his day. He knew, admired and was intimate with many of them...
'John and Mary Perceval were neighbours and through them they met many members of the nascent Antipodean group – Arthur Boyd, Clifton Pugh, Charles Blackman and John Brack. At the end of the 1950's, the Hattams formed a close friendship with Fred Williams who in turn would influence Hal Hattams' subsequent career as a painter... Hal Hattam's Shoreham beachscapes mark some of the most fetching and vivid representations of this distinctly Australian theme.'1
1. Patrick McCaughey, 'Hal Hattam and the Landscape of Longing', exhibition introduction, A Tribute to Hal Hattam, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2003
