JEWELLERY, DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS AUCTION Tuesday, 14 February 2023 - 10:00 AM start
Pat Hanly (1932-2004),
Realised: $16,500 plus premium
Lot Details
'Cyclop & Bouquet', oil on board, signed and dated '60; title inscribed, signed and dated and inscribed The Gallery, 64 Symonds St, Auckland, Cat No. 16 verso, 530 x 838mm. Illustrated: Gregory O'Brien, Hanly (Ron Sang Publications, 2012), p. 32. Provenance: Collection of Dr Allan Godfrey, Golden Bay. Private collection, Auckland. Note: Cyclop & Bouquet is from Hanly's Fire Series: painted while Hanly was living in London at the time of the Cold War. Produced in reaction to the possible threat of nuclear war. The bouquet formed as a nuclear explosion is watched by the one eyed ‘cyclop’ figure. The yacht of hope, an 'Escape Vessel'.
