Lot 45

Faint vertical lines of craquelure likely due to panel, overall surface dirt and evidence of mildew to paint surface and frame, in stable condition with no evidence of restoration, examined under UV light.


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Private collection, Sydney

McGrath, S, The Artist and the River: Arthur Boyd and the Shoalhaven, Bay Books, 1982

"I painted this in the hills behind Riversdale: It had been raining. I was just trying to get the pinkness of the trunks of the trees. It was the first time in the Shoalhaven that I painted a sky that wasn't pure blue. It's about wetness and the scraggy bush."
Arthur Boyd quoted in McGrath, S, The Artist and the River: Arthur Boyd and the Shoalhaven, Bay Books, 1982

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