Merryn Schriever
Managing Director, Australia
Lot 56
Sam Fullbrook(1922-2004)Midsummer Town on the Darling, c.1964
14 November 2018, 18:00 AEDT
Sydney, WoollahraAU$30,000 - AU$50,000
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Sam Fullbrook (1922-2004)
Midsummer Town on the Darling, c.1964
signed lower right: 'SF'
oil on canvas
96.5 x 76.5cm (38 x 30 1/8in).
signed lower right: 'SF'
oil on canvas
96.5 x 76.5cm (38 x 30 1/8in).
Footnotes
PROVENANCE
Skinner Galleries, Perth
Margaret Feilman, Perth, acquired from the above in 1966
Sotheby's, Sydney, 25 August 2015, lot 21
Private collection, Perth
EXHIBITED
Sam Fullbrook, Skinner Galleries, Perth, 16 - 27 August 1966, cat. 25
Sam Fullbrook: Racing Colours, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 7 June - 24 July 1995, cat. 18 (label attached verso)
LITERATURE
Hillary Merrifield, 'Outback Artist Now Superb Colourist', The West Australian, Perth, 17 August 1966, p. 19
Felicity St John Moore, Sam Fullbrook: Racing Colours, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1995, p. 32 (illus.)
'Midsummer town on the Darling was painted on the artist's second trip to the Darling River. The town may have been Louth, which was a few miles away from his camp, but then again it could also have been Bourke since it draws on memory and observations made over years. The slow curve in the bend in the river to the lower right is echoed in the quicker rhythms of the bordering trees. Together they lead the eye through barely perceptible changes of tone to the white heat of corrugated iron roofs catching the sun. Beneath the soft grey-green sky of the high horizon, this flickering whiteness joins the yellow trees in the foreground to make light seem to radiate from the painting.' 1
1. Felicity St John Moore, Sam Fullbrook – Racing Colours, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1993, p. 32
