Christies, Melbourne, 1991, lot 182;
Private Collection, Melbourne, since then
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Michael Shannon
Marshalling Yards V, 1971
Price: $20,000
oil on canvas
76.00 x 102.00
signed and dated 'Shannon 71' l.l.; titled on reverse
Provenance:
Literature & references:
Gordon Morrison, Elizabeth Cross, Ronald Millar and Patrick McCaughey, Michael Shannon - Australian Romantic Realist, Art Gallery of Ballarat, retrospective exhibition catalogue, 2011, see p 64 for Marshalling yards, 1957, and p 90 for Marshalling yard No. 1, 1971
Note:
In the 1950s and 60s, when Shannon's painting was focused on the urban landscape, he favoured an eminence from which to look out across rooftops - in this case from Spencer Street over the Marshalling Yards to Port Melbourne. He painted two works of the same title in 1957 and revisited the subject in 1971 when The Age's new multi-storey headquarters gave him more height.
Further works by the Artist
(Untitled - Urban Panorama)
Michael Shannon
c. 1959 - 1960
oil on canvas, 120.00 x 150.00
Price: $35,000
(Figures embracing in doorway)
Michael Shannon
1955
watercolour on paper, 30.50 x 46.50
Price: $2,200
Landscape, Broken Hill
Michael Shannon
1952 - 1953
watercolour and gouache on paper, 28.50 x 45.00
Looking across to Station Pier
Michael Shannon
1957
watercolour & gouache on paper, 28.00 x 36.00
SOLD
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