JUSTIN MAURICE O'BRIEN (1917-1996)

Justin Maurice O'Brien (1917-1996)
Three Jugglers
signed 'O'BRIEN' (upper right)
oil on canvas
21½ x 26½in. (54.5 x 67cm.)

Provenance:
Purchased by ICI Australia Ltd, Melbourne from The Society of Artists' Spring Exhibition, 1958.
Orica Limited (previously ICI) Art Collection, Melbourne.
Corporate collection, Perth (from December 2001); sale, Sotheby's, Sydney, 26 Aug. 2002 (Art from the Kerry Stokes Collection including Works Formerly in the Orica Collection), lot 504.
with Gould Galleries, Melbourne, 2003, cat.1 (illustrated on the catalogue cover), where purchased by the present owner.

Exhibited:
Sydney, Macquarie Galleries, Christmas Exhibition, Dec. 1957, no.14.
Melbourne, Gould Galleries, The Director's Choice 2012, July-Aug. 2012, no.9.

Literature:
M. Eagle and J. Jones. A Story of Australian Painting, Sydney, 1994, pp.244, 247 (illus. pl.104) and 287.

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