Parasol

Details

IAN FAIRWEATHER (1891-1974)
Parasol
signed with initials and dated 'IF/56' (lower right)
gouache on paper
54.5 x 36.8 cm
1

Provenance

Collection Mr and Mrs R C Crebbin, Sydney
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
Private collection, Brisbane

Literature

M Bail, Ian Fairweather, Sydney, 1981, illus. p. 133, fig. 62, cat. no. 124

Exhibited

Sydney, Macquarie Galleries, Posthumous Exhibition, 1975, cat. no. 30

Special notice

A 10% Goods and Services tax (G.S.T) will be charged on the Buyer's Premium on all lots in this sale.

Lot Essay

Murray Bail noted "the umbrella regularly pops up in Fairweather's work, aside from its visual qualities, it is one of the eight symbols of Chinese Buddhism, a sign of dignity".... "parasol...appears to be a drawing before his large painting completed in 1957 (it) must number among the last of Fairweather's drawings." (M Bail, opcit, p. 128; p. 241)

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