Probably Private Collection Sydney;
Davidson Auctions, Sydney, 15/11/08 lot 71 (as 'Study: Trees and Mountains');
through Charles Nodrum Gallery, 2009;
Private Collection, NSW till 2019;
Private Collection, NSW, by inheritance
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Godfrey Miller
Study: Trees and Mountains, c. 1962
SOLD
oil and pencil on canvas on board
36.00 x 55.00
Certificate of Authenticity (Darlinghurst Galleries, 1972) on reverse with title and JH number 180
Provenance:
Exhibited:
Earth, Sea and Sky, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 26 March - 9 April 2009, no. 22
Note:
Whilst titled on label verso, the painting also relates to some of the Red Earth Forest series.
See, for example, Deborah Edwards, Godfrey Miller: 1893-1964, (retrospective exhibition catalogue) Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1996, plate 84, and
John Henshaw, 'Godfrey Miller', Sydney, 1965, plate 56.
For related 'Trees and Mountain' series, painted in the early 1960s, see
Edwards, plate 85, and Henshaw, plate 73, (and 23 for a finished canvas)
Further works by the Artist
(Still life with compote)
Godfrey Miller
c. 1938 - 1944
oil and pencil on canvas, 38.00 x 48.50
SOLD
(Still life with bananas)
Godfrey Miller
c. 1934 - 1935
oil on oil sketching paper, 38.00 x 29.00
Sky and Landscape
Godfrey Miller
c. 1950
gouache and watercolour on paper, 25.00 x 31.00
SOLD
Unity in Duality
Godfrey Miller
c. 1950
gouache and watercolour on paper, 33.00 x 43.00
SOLD
Female Torso
Godfrey Miller
c. 1950 - 1954
Bronze (base separate); ed 2 of 12, 17.00 x 7.00 x 7.00
SOLD
Drawing - Trees and Mountains Series
Godfrey Miller
c. 1962
oil and pencil on canvas, 66.50 x 84.50
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.