Lot 76
Stoneware, thirty pieces comprising six each of dinner plates, entrée / dessert plates, side plates, handled ramekins with covers, and cereal / fruit bowls, all decorated by Olsen with various freely-drawn motifs and geometric and abstract organic designs in cobalt blue on the speckled pale grey-white ground, many also with details in brown, the well of each plate with initials TW decoratively drawn to the centre, all with Mair's impressed mark, all variously signed underside by Olsen in full or with initials and dated 1970 and 1971, the larger pieces also inscribed 'Terry Whelan suite'
The dinner plates 26cm diameter; the covered ramekins 18cm wide, 8cm high (minor variations between pieces)
Estimate $8,000 - $12,000
Terrence (Terry) Whelan (1943–2024), Melbourne, part of a large suite commissioned by him from John Olsen and Robert Mair, 1970
The Estate of Terrence (Terry) Whelan
John Olsen: The You Beaut Country, NGV Australia, Melbourne, 16 September, 2016–12 February, 2017 (the whole suite)
Matthew Martin, 'John Olsen's Whelan Suite' in D. Hurlston and D. Edwards (eds), John Olsen: The You Beaut Country (2016)
Tom Olsen, Son of the Brush (2020), pp 41–42
© John Olsen / Copyright Agency, 2025
Decorative Arts
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8785
6:00pm - 7 July 2025
Hawthorn
VIEWING
Fri 4 - Sun 6 July, 10am - 4pm
2 Oxley Rd, Hawthorn VIC
CONTACT
Chiara Curcio
decorativearts@leonardjoel.com.au
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