Peter PURVES SMITH
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 1912 – 1949
- Movements: Europe 1934-37, Australia 1937, Africa, Europe, America, India, Burma 1937-46
Woman eating duck
1948 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Drawing, Technique: gouache, watercolour, pen and ink and black pencil
Primary Insc: Signed and dated lower right in image in black ink, ' PURVES-SMITH/ 1948 '.
Not titled.
image 47.5 h x 62.6 w cm
sheet 48.0 h x 62.6 w
Purchased with the assistance of James Agapitos OAM and Ray Wilson OAM 2007
Accession No: NGA 2007.1112
Subject: Collection: The James Agapitos and Ray Wilson collection of Australian surrealist art, acquired, 2007.
Australia, Art style: Surrealism
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Peter PURVES SMITH
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 1912 – 1949
- Movements: Europe 1934-37, Australia 1937, Africa, Europe, America, India, Burma 1937-46
Woman eating duck
1948 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Drawing, Technique: gouache, watercolour, pen and ink and black pencil
Support: thin white wove paper on cardboard
Primary Insc: Signed and dated lower right in image in black ink, ' PURVES-SMITH/ 1948 '.
Not titled.
Tertiary Insc: Inscribed verso upper right in black pencil, '241821-&'.
image 47.5 h x 62.6 w cm
sheet 48.0 h x 62.6 w
Purchased with the assistance of James Agapitos OAM and Ray Wilson OAM 2007
Accession No: NGA 2007.1112
Subject: Collection: The James Agapitos and Ray Wilson collection of Australian surrealist art, acquired, 2007.
Australia, Art style: Surrealism
Provenance:
- Joseph Brown Collection
- Agapitos/Wilson Collection, Sydney
- Purchase by the National Gallery of Australia, of the Agapitos/Wilson Collection, from James Agapitos and Ray Wilson, Sydney, 2007
Exhibition History
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- NA
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- Australian Surrealism: the Agapitos/Wilson collection NGA
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