Lot 4

Work in good condition. There are light imperfections seen throughout the paper all expected with age, no significant issues such as foxing, tearing or creases. Work is well framed, overall size 94 x 119cm


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The Collection of Mr and Mrs Charles Ruwolt, New South Wales
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, The Charles Ruwolt Collection of Australian Paintings, 17 November 1966, lot 32
The Collection of Claude Ruwolt
The Collection of Louise Ruwolt, Victoria

Athenaem Hall, Melbourne 1926
Exhibition of Watercolours by Blamire Young, David Jones Ltd, Sydney, September-October 1928

Blamire Young, The Sydney Mail, Sydney, September 1928- "The large painting dominates the exhibition…in the foreground - a massive old tree, even its gnarled old roots withstanding the centuries, its branches lost in the leaf-shadows of ages above and like the mist of long years, the grey-blue trunks of its sturdy companions in the distance and the soft light filtering through the purple shadows of branches overhead and beneath the sheltering branches, a little, worn, man-made fence".

Art Exhibitions in Sydney, The Sydney Mail, Sydney, 3 October 1928- " Here a great tree bulking dark in the right foreground, the colours on its trunks wonderfully studied, arches in with its heavy branches the spectator's point of view. Behind it and the post-and-rail fence in clearer light is marshalled a regiment of straight tree-trunks, and beyond them again the open, sunlit glade".

Marshall, S., The Watercolours of Blamire Young, Meridian, Sydney 2013, p. 600