Lot 61

Fisher Fine Art , London (cat. no. C14.925, label verso)
Private collection, Western Australia

Arthur Boyd and Jamie Boyd: Suffolk Paintings, Ipswich Borough Council Museums and Galleries, 26 January - 10 March 1991 (label verso)

Hoff, U., The Art of Arthur Boyd, Andre Deutsch Limited, London 1986, p. 77, related works illustrated plates 69, 188.

Throughout Boyd's Narcissus-Colonial paintings he repeatedly models animal skeletons and carcasses, sketched from an earlier journey through Central Australia surrounded by skulls, ribs, spinal cords and the hides of animals. Arthur continued with this imagery back in Suffolk by commemorating the stoat, still lissom in death, in several lifesize paintings to be exhibited at Fischer Fine Art in London.