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Swimming Frogs and Dragon Flies
Watercolour on paper
52 x128cm
Deutscher
and Hackett,
Important Australian and International
Art, Sydney, Lot No. 52 |
$100,800 |
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Wet Season, 1994
Watercolour & pastel on paper
98 x 95cm
Deutscher and Hackett,
Important Australian +
International Art, Sydney, Lot No. 13
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$93,000 |
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Spoonbills and Frogs
Watercolour & pastel
100 x 94cm,
Bonhams
& Goodman,
Australian, International & Aboriginal
Fine Art, Melbourne, Lot No. 127
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$90,000 |
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The Wet and Lilly Trotters 1994
Watercolour & pastel on paper
99 x 78cm
Menzies, Australian &
International Fine Art, Sydney, Lot No. 92
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$84,000 |
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Lilly Trotters Ord River 1984
Watercolour, gouache & pastel on paper
98 x 70cm
Est: $25,000-35,000,
Deutscher~Menzies, Australian
and International Fine Art, Sydney, Lot No. 1
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$84,000 |
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Sunbirds and Lily Pond
Watercolour & pastel on paper
100 x 95cm
Menzies, Important
Australian and International Fine Paintings and
Sculpture, Sydney, Lot No. 49
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$82,227 |
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Seafood Casserole
Mixed media on Toronoko paper
95 x 99cm
Mossgreen Auctions,
Modern
Australian & International Art, Sydney, Lot No. 23
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$76,375 |
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The Bridge
Watercolour & pastel on paper
94 x 99cm
Deutscher and Hackett,
Important Fine Art + Indigenous Art, Sydney, Lot No.
21 |
$75,640 |
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Chats of Cooper's Creek
Watercolour & pastel on paper
94 x 99cm
Deutscher and Hackett,
Important Australian + International Fine Art,
Melbourne, Lot No. 24 |
$72,000 |
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Cat and Goldfish Bowl 1997
Watercolour & pastel on paper
100 x 95cm
Deutscher~Menzies, Fine
Australian & International Art, Sydney, Lot No. 75
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$72,000 |
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Frog in the Rain
Watercolour & pastel on paper
45 x 50cm
Sotheby's, Important Australian Art, Sydney, Lot No.
23
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$56,400 |
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Lake
Eyre
Watercolour & pastel on paper
56 x 56cm
Deutscher~Menzies, Australian and International Art,
Sydney, Lot No. 22
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$31,200 |
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Cats Drinking Milk
Watercolour & crayon on paper
75 x 54cm
Sotheby's,
Fine Australian Art Auction, Melbourne, Lot No. 56
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$31,050 |
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Giraffes 24
Watercolour on paper
61 x 71 cm
Smith & Singer,
Important Australian & International Art, Sydney,
02/09/2020, Lot No. 3
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$30,682 |
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 John Henry OLSEN,
AO,
OBE
(born 1928,
Newcastle, NSW)
Olsen
is arguably the most important living
Australian
artist.
1928
Born in Newcastle, NSW
1935
Family moves to Bondi Beach
1943
Leaves school to work as a clerk, then becomes a freelance
cartoonist for publications such as Man and Fashion Design
1947
Attends Datillo Rubbo Art School
1950
Attends Julian Ashton Art School studies under John Passmore, later
Godfrey Miller at East Sydney Technical College
1952-55
Exhibits with the Society of Artists
1955 First
major exhibition, at Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1956
Participates in important abstract and abstract expressionist
exhibition, 'Direction 1'
1957-60
Travels to Europe
1965-67
Lives in London and Portugal
1968
Establishes the Bakery Art School, Sydney
1969-71
Lives at Dunmoochin, Victoria, in the artist community started by
Clifton Pugh, where he worked with artists such as Fred Williams and
Albert Tucker; wins Wynne Prize
1973
Completes Sydney Opera House mural 'Salute to Five Bells', based on
Kenneth Slessor's poem
1970s-1980s Tours through central Australia, and later Egypt, Kenya
and South Africa
1985 Wins
the Wynne Prize
1988
Paints mural for Darling Harbour Project, Sydney
1991
Retrospective at National Gallery of Victoria, tours Australia
1997
Publishes his autobiography, 'Drawn from Life'
John OLSEN is one of Australia's most influential abstract painters
and acknowledged a Master water-colorist.
John
OLSEN
is considered Australia's greatest living artist, literally
a 'living legend'.
OLSEN
signature style has made him a master of his craft,
depicting the experience of the Australian 'landscape' in a new and
contemplative way.
John
OLSEN has a place as the elder statesman of Australian art.
His vision and passion for life and the landscape is a
compelling trademark in his work.
John
Olsen’s innovative approach to painting with an imaginative
response to place, came to the fore in the 1960s. During
the late 1950s and early 1960s, he had become interested in
the idea of our interdependence with the natural world. This
idea was conveyed in Sydney sun, along with his enthusiastic
engagement with locality.
John OLSEN retains a great
wit that manifests in his imagery, is OLSEN trait that sets
him apart from his contemporaries and has made him one of
Australia's most popular artists, without compromising his
artistic vision.
Collections
John
OLSEN work is represented in all Australian state gallery
collections, the National Gallery of Australia and regional
galleries Australia-wide including:
National
Gallery of Australia
:
The Director of the National Gallery of
Australia, Dr Brian Kennedy, announced the
purchase of John Olsen significant
paintings.
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
John OLSEN
is also represented in institutional, corporate and private
collections in Australia, Asia, the United Kingdom, Europe
and the United States of America.
Awards
John
OLSEN
won a number of significant Australian Art Prizes including
the Archibald in 2005 for his self-portrait Janus Faced and was
awarded the Order of Australia (OA) in 2001
1960
Rockdale Prize
1961
H.C. Richards Memorial Prize (Queensland Art Gallery), Perth
Prize
1962
Royal Sydney Show Prize
1963
Georges Art Prize, Melbourne
1964
Launceston Prize, Tasmania
1969
Wynne Prize (Art Gallery of New South Wales)
1977
Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) for services to the
Arts
1985
Wynne Prize (Art Gallery of New South Wales)
1993
Australian Creative Fellowship
2001
Order of Australia (O.A.)
2005
Archibald Portrait Prize
selected Major
Exhibitions
1955 John OLSEN, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1958 John OLSEN, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1960 OLSEN, Galerie Lambert, Paris
1960 John OLSEN, Terry Clune Galleries, Sydney
1963 An Exhibition of Recent Paintings, Gouaches & Drawings by John
OLSEN,
Clune Galleries, Sydney
1963 John OLSEN: Recent Paintings, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1965 John OLSEN, Clune Galleries, Sydney
1965 John OLSEN, South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
1967 Entrance to the Castle of Life: John OLSEN 66-67, Clune Galleries,
Sydney
1967 Entrance to the Castle of Life: John OLSEN 66-67, South Yarra
Gallery, Melbourne
1969 The Dunmoochin Summer: John OLSEN '69, Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
1969 John OLSEN '69- Exhibition of Gouches and Oil Paintings, White
Studio, Adelaide
1970 John OLSEN, Reid Gallery, Brisbane
1971 John OLSEN, Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
1972 John OLSEN, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1973 John OLSEN,
Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
1974 John OLSEN, Atelier 72 Gallery, Adelaide
1975 John OLSEN: Edge of the Void, Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
1975 John OLSEN 74-75: Edge of the Void and Opera House Mural Studies,
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1975 Edge of the Void: Paintings, Drawings, Etchings & Lithographs,
Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide
1975 John OLSEN: Etchings, Gallery Huntly, Canberra
1976 John OLSEN: Recent oil paintings, gouches, drawings and etchings,
Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane The Child in us All, St John's Anglican
Cathedral, Brisbane
1977 John OLSEN: Recent Paintings, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1978 John OLSEN: Paintings and Drawings 77-78, Barry Stern Galleries,
Sydney
1979 John OLSEN: Earth Hold etchings, Cintra House, Brisbane
1980 John OLSEN: Exhibition of Recent Paintings, Australian Galleries,
Melbourne
1980 John OLSEN: Paintings and Drawings 77-80 Lister Gallery, Festival
of Perth, Perth
1980 John OLSEN: My Complete Graphics, David Reid Gallery, Sydney
1981 John OLSEN: A Sliver of Time, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
1982 John OLSEN 81-82 and Noela Hjorth, Bortignon's Kalamunda Gallery of
Man, Festival of Perth, Perth
1982 John OLSEN, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1983 John OLSEN: Selected Graphics, Art Gallery of Western Australia,
Perth
1983 John OLSEN - The Land Beyond Time, Art Gallery of Western
Australia, Perth
(touring exhibition - travelling throughout Australia 1984-1990)
1984 John OLSEN, Tynte Gallery, Adelaide Festival 1984, Adelaide
1985 John OLSEN, Tynte Gallery, Adelaide
1986 Paintings & Drawings by John OLSEN from the permanent collection,
Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
1986 John OLSEN - In Search of the Open Country 1961-1986, Heide,
Melbourne
1986 John OLSEN: Gold, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1986 John OLSEN, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1987-88 John OLSEN - Encounters with Drawing, Wollongong City Gallery,
Wollongong
1988 John OLSEN - Encounters with Drawing, Australian Galleries,
Melbourne
1989 John OLSEN, Greenhill Gallery, Perth
1990 John OLSEN, Australian Galleries, Sydney
1991 John OLSEN, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1991-92 John OLSEN Retrospective, National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne
1992 John OLSEN Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1993 John OLSEN: Recent Works, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
1993 John OLSEN: Recent Etchings, OLSEN Carr Art Dealers, Sydney
1994 John OLSEN: Recent Work 1992-1994, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
1995 John OLSEN: Recent Works, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
1998 John OLSEN: Recent Paintings 1995 - 1998, OLSEN Carr Art Dealers,
Sydney
1998 'New York Nowhere', recent paintings and works on paper, OLSEN Carr
Art Dealers, Sydney
2000 John OLSEN: Past & Present, Tim OLSEN Gallery, Sydney
Selected Group Exhibitions
1956 Direction 1, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney; Pacific Loans Exhibition,
Auckland and San Francisco.
1961 Sydney 9, Gallery A, Melbourne; Recent Australian Art, Whitechapel
Gallery, London; H.C. Richards Memorial prize, Queensland Art Gallery
1963 Georges Invitation Prize, Melbourne.
1967 Australian Painters 1964-66, Corcoran Gallery, Washington U.SA
1969 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1976 The Child in Us All, John OLSEN: Tapestries and oils on hardboard,
Queensland Festival of Art, St. Johns Anglican Cathedral, Brisbane
1977 Australian Contemporary Printmakers, Stadia Graphics Gallery,
Sydney
1978 Australian Etching, National Gallery of Victoria
1979 Focus '79 R.M.I.T., Melbourne
1982 John OLSEN 1981-82 & Noela Hjorth; Paintings, lithographs &
drawings, Festival of Perth Exhibition, Bortignon's Gallery of Man, Perth;
Aspects of the Landscape, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne.
1986 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1987 Jack Manton Art Prize, Queensland
1998-1999 Southern Reflections: Ten Contemporary Artists, toured
Northern Europe
1998 Private Collections, Orange Regional Gallery
1998-1999 Escape Artists: Modernists in the Tropics, touring regional
galleries in Queensland and New South Wales
Bibliography:
 John
OLSEN - The Human Touch,
author Ken McGregor, 2014
Virginia Spate, John OLSEN, Georgian House, Melbourne, 1973
John OLSEN, Salute to Five Bells: John OLSEN's Opera House
Journal, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1973
John OLSEN, My Complete Graphics, 1957-79, Gryphon Books,
Melbourne, 1980
Sandra McGrath and John OLSEN, The Artist and the Desert,
Bay Books, Sydney and London, 1981
John OLSEN: Gold, exhibition catalogue, introduction by
Edmund Capon, essay by John OLSEN, AGNSW, Sydney, 1986
Deborah Hart, John OLSEN, Craftsman House, 1991
John OLSEN, Drawn from Life, D&S, Sydney, 1997
Sandra McGrath, Lake Eyre - the Desert Sea, Lansdowne,
Melbourne, 1979
John OLSEN: My Complete Graphics 57-79, Gryphon Books and
Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 1980
Deborah Hart, John OLSEN, Craftsman House, 1992
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