Lot 17
Horsham Sale Yards: She's a Beautiful Pig Boys, all Meat and no Pertaters 1960
linocut
signed, titled and dated below image: HORSHAM SALE YARDS/ "She's a beautiful pig boys, all meat and no pertaters"/ Eric Thake 1960
20.5 x 14.5cm (card); 38 x 31cm (frame)
Estimate $1,000 - $2,000
Gift of the Artist to Mr. Harry Muir
Thence by descent
Acquisitions 1967, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 March - 1 April 1968 (another example)
Animals on Paper: from the Australian Collection of Prints, Drawings and Watercolours, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 5 September - 5 October 1992 (another example)
Animals on Paper: from the Australian Collection of Prints, Drawings and Watercolours, Dubbo Regional Art Gallery, Dubbo, 18 December 1992 - 24 January 1993 (another example)
Animals on Paper: from the Australian Collection of Prints, Drawings and Watercolours, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul, 1 May - 30 May 1993 (another example)
Animals on Paper: from the Australian Collection of Prints, Drawings and Watercolours, Grafton Regional Gallery, , 11 June - 1 August 1993 (another example)
Kolenberg, H., Animals on Paper - from the Australian collection of Prints, Drawings and Watercolours, Sydney, 1992. cat. no. 83 (another example)
inscribed inside card: Harry: All the Best/ for Xmas & 1961/ -/ Please pass enclosed on to John as I'm running short of envelopes/ Eric
Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; and Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria.
Prints and Multiples
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8778
6:00pm - 16 April 2025
Hawthorn
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