TWO KINDS OF IGNORANCE, 1958

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
20 April 2011
45

EDWIN TANNER

(1920 - 1980)
TWO KINDS OF IGNORANCE, 1958

oil on composition board

83.5 x 91.0 cm

signed and dated upper right: EDWIN TANNER / 1958

inscribed on paper label verso: No. 37 /'TWO KINDS OF / IGNORANCE' inscribed verso:'AUSTRALIAN COCKY'

Estimate: 
$28,000 - 35,000
Provenance

Estate of the artist
Private collection, United States of America
Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne (label attached verso)
Private collection, Melbourne, purchased from the above 1999

Exhibited

Edwin Tanner Retrospective 1976, Age Gallery, Melbourne, 19–29 October 1976, cat. 75 (illus. in accompanying catalogue)
Edwin Tanner: Paintings from the 1960s and 1970s, Charles Nodrum Gallery at Mary Place, Sydney, 7–25 April 1988
Edwin Tanner: Paintings from the 1950s to 1970s, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, 28 October – 18 November 1995, cat. 5 (illus. in accompanying catalogue)