STILL LIFE WITH MASKS

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
4 May 2016
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KATE O’CONNOR

(1876 – 1968, New Zealand/Australian)
STILL LIFE WITH MASKS

oil on canvas

73.0 x 92.0 cm

signed lower right: K L O’Connor
painted on reverse: First Communion

Estimate: 
$10,000 – 15,000
Sold for $21,960 (inc. BP) in Auction 42 - 4 May 2016, Melbourne
Provenance

Ailsa Osborne Gallery, Adelaide
Mrs Sweetenham, Adelaide, acquired from the above c.1965
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 12 April 1989, lot 1430 (as ‘Mardi Gras - still life with theatre masks; On reverse: Portrait of a Lady in White’)
Bill Luke, Melbourne
Arthur Spartalis Fine Art, Perth, 1995
Private collection, Perth

Exhibited

Kathleen O’Connor, Ailsa Osborne Gallery, Adelaide, 1965
Kathleen O’Connor, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 4 July – 29 September 1996 (label attached verso)

Related works

Masks, oil on canvas, 57.5 x 71.0 cm, collection of Lee Steere family, exhibited Kathleen O'Connor: Hommage Exhibition, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 22 February – 19 March 1967, cat. 38, illus. in Hutchings, P.A.E. and Lewis, J., Kathleen O’Connor Artist in Exile, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, 1987, p. 278