MONKIRA RINGERS

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
27 August 2014
114

HUGH SAWREY

(1923 - 1999)
MONKIRA RINGERS

oil on composition board

50.0 x 60.0 cm

signed lower right: SAWREY
inscribed verso: "MONKIRA / RINGERS" / DIAMANTINA / CHANNELS / WESTERN / QLD / HUGH SAWREY

Estimate: 
$5,000 - 8,000
Sold for $12,000 (inc. BP) in Auction 36 - 27 August 2014, Sydney
Provenance

Brigadier R.W.P. Dodd, MC (CMF), Queensland
Thence by descent
Estate of Molly Dodd, Queensland

Literature

Sawrey, H., The Art of Hugh Sawrey, Collectors Edition, John Hooper, Queensland, 1981, pp. 72–73 (illus. Front Cover and p. 73) 
'In the course of tending a muster, and meeting up with the Durrie, Mt. Leonard and Monkira Ringers, the artist found himself tailing bullocks on Monkira Run. In this painting he depicts two of the Monkira stockmen, boiling up along the Diamantina River, channel country, western Queensland.'