Possibly Artarmon Galleries, Sydney, c 1970 (Artarmon Galleries were among Charles Hewitt's earliest and most active clients and were closely connected to the Godfrey Miller Estate from the mid 60s on);
Martin Sachs;
his estate sale, Leski Auctions, Melbourne, 10/3/22, lot 14
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Godfrey Miller
Still life arrangement on table, c. 1936 - 1940
SOLD
oil and pencil on canvas on board
41.00 x 52.00
initialled faintly and indistinctly 'GM' l.r. Charles Hewitt Frames label verso (Albion Street - so c 1970)
Provenance:
Literature & references:
John Carrick and Katrina Rumley, Expressing Australia: Art in Parliament House, Parliament House Construction Authority, Canberra, 1988, see p 41 for 'Still life with gourds, fruit and wine glasses', a work with a closely related composition.
Note:
Note from Ann Wookey: "The picture’s composition reflects Miller’s intrigue from around the mid 1930s when in London with the planar attributes of Braque’s early paper collages and Synthetic Cubist pictures... his use of black to segment the composition and outline forms is a feature of Still life (AW51A) and Fruit with comport and fruit (AW52), with such outlining known from the mid 1930s ... variations on the dark curvilinear form at the right crop up in Figtrees (AW64), Figtree series (AW70A) and Abstract (Figtrees) (AW70B): its inspiration, scenic drawings arguably made by the artist on his Spanish travels of 1935, which are held by the National Gallery of Australia."
Further works by the Artist
Untitled (figures in landscape)
Godfrey Miller
c. 1960
oil & pencil on linen, 67.50 x 100.50
(Landscape with Trees)
Godfrey Miller
c. 1945
Pencil and watercolour on paper; (tear l.l.), 21.50 x 29.00
Trees and Quarry series
Godfrey Miller
1950 - 1955
oil and pencil on canvas, 77.00 x 90.00
Quarry Series
Godfrey Miller
1961 - 1963
oil and pencil on canvas (monochrome), 80.00 x 91.50
Study: Trees and Mountains
Godfrey Miller
c. 1962
oil and pencil on canvas on board, 36.00 x 55.00
SOLD
(Untitled - Composition)
Godfrey Miller
c. 1945
pen and ink and oil on canvas pinned to original board, 46.50 x 48.50
(Composition)
Godfrey Miller
c. 1940
pen, ink and watercolour on paper, 23.50 x 30.00
SOLD
(Still Life with Fruit)
Godfrey Miller
1942 - 1948
pencil and oil on canvas, 48.00 x 56.50
SOLD
(Still life with fruit)
Godfrey Miller
1942 - 1948
pencil and oil on canvas, 48.00 x 56.50
SOLD
Since its establishment in 1984, the Charles Nodrum Gallery’s exhibition program embraces a diversity of media and styles - from painting, sculpture & works on paper to graphics and photography; from figurative, geometric, gestural, surrealist & social comment to installation & conceptually based work.