Lot 45
Brian James Dunlop(born 1938)Interior, 1986
21 November 2019, 18:00 AEDT
Melbourne, ArmadaleAU$6,000 - AU$9,000
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Brian James Dunlop (born 1938)
Interior, 1986
signed lower right: 'Dunlop'
oil on canvas
60.0 x 105.0cm (23 5/8 x 41 5/16in).
signed lower right: 'Dunlop'
oil on canvas
60.0 x 105.0cm (23 5/8 x 41 5/16in).
Footnotes
PROVENANCE
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection, Sydney
RELATED WORK
The Meeting, 1980, illustrated in L. Strahan, Brian Dunlop, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990, p. 156, fig. 17 (illus.)
Prompted by being sent a photo of the subject, Meg, Dunlop recalls in a 1987 letter to the owner of the present work: 'I'm not one for reminiscing, but can recall the place, Ealing, London. I was sharing a room with Keith Looby & Bill Wright & Meg Wynn Owen were living nearby where I painted the picture. we were all very short of money at the time (a state that lasted for quite a few years!). The other painting [the current work] was a study for a large painting in the State Bank in Melbourne which has two figures in it [The Meeting, 1980] , & was painted in the Clarence St. studio on the top floor of a building near Wynyard Station where I worked for a few years before coming to Melbourne. The model posed for the large painting in the Queensland Gallery too...'. [personal correspondence]
