Various Collections
Lot 272
John Olsen(1928-2023)Black Swan on the Ord, 1984
3 December 2025, 14:00 AEDT
SydneyAU$800 - AU$1,200
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John Olsen (1928-2023)
Black Swan on the Ord, 1984
also known as 'Swans on the Orde'
numbered, titled, signed and dated below plate
edition: AP
hard ground line etching on paper
published by the Christensen Fund
50.5 x 33.5cm (19 7/8 x 13 3/16in).
also known as 'Swans on the Orde'
numbered, titled, signed and dated below plate
edition: AP
hard ground line etching on paper
published by the Christensen Fund
50.5 x 33.5cm (19 7/8 x 13 3/16in).
Footnotes
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Sydney, a gift from the artist
EXHIBITED
John Olsen, Breewood Galleries, Sydney, New South Wales, 27 April - 16 May 1991, cat. 1 (another impression)
John Olsen - Works on Paper, Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide, 15 - 30 November 1994 (another impression)
LITERATURE
John Olsen, Ken McGregor, and Jeffrey Makin, Teeming with Life, John Olsen, His Complete Graphics, 1957-2005, Macmillan Art Publishing, Melbourne, 2005
John Olsen: Catalogue Raisonné, Sydney, cat. E.1983