Lot 73

Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack
(German, 1893-1965)
Flight into Space, 1958

Important Australian Art

14 November 2018, 18:00 AEDT

Sydney, Woollahra

Sold for AU$8,540 inc. premium

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Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack (German, 1893-1965)

Flight into Space, 1958
signed and dated lower left: 'H. Mack 1958'
watercolour, chalk and pencil on paper
20.5 x 24.0cm (8 1/16 x 9 7/16in).

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PROVENANCE
Mr & Mrs Douglas Carnegie, New South Wales
Allen D. Christensen Collection, United States
On long-term loan to the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, from September 1979 (label attached verso)
Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection, Perth

EXHIBITED
The Carnegie Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 27 October - 30 November 1966, cat. 53
Paintings from the Collection of Allen D. Christensen, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 7 – 22 December 1976, cat. 21
Art & Furniture of the 1960s, Charles Nodrum Gallery and Luke Design, Melbourne, 15 October – 7 November 1998, cat. 6

LITERATURE
The Carnegie Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, December 1966, cat. 53 (illus.)
Eric Rowlison, Paintings from the collection of Allen D. Christensen, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1976, cat. 21, p. 7 (illus.)
Modern Australian painting 1920s-1980s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, September 1997, cat. 31 (illus.)

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