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SWIFT: HKBAAU2S +61 (0) 2 8412 2222 +61 (0) 2 6274 1900 [email protected] [email protected] Azura Nichols +61 (0) 2 8412 2222 [email protected] Specialists Merryn Schriever Director Australian and International Art Specialist Alex Clark Australian and International Art Specialist Francesca Cavazzini Aboriginal and International Art Specialist Fiona Frith Jewellery Specialist Yvett Klein Asian Art Specialist Ophelia Lai Jewellery Specialist Kate Floro Marketing and Client Services Azura Nichols Client Service Coordinator Locations H o Sydney ld Melbourne s Wi wo nd so rt r h St St O c e a n S M t o S n p c i ce Ca u l r e do r St n ia S St t Rush St Ln Peaker Rd Jersey Queen St St Smith Bonhams n St Quee Dw n St Vi Joh ct ye oria r L n Av e Oxford St Important Australian Art including the Cary Collection Lots 1 – 94 4 | BONHAMS 1 HERBERT BADHAM (1899-1961) Eric Wilson's Yacht, 1936 signed and dated lower right: 'HBADHAM ' 36' watercolour and pencil on paper 28.0 x 35.5cm (11 x 14in). $3,000 - 5,000 Provenance The Estate of the Artist, Sydney thence by descent Private collection, Victoria IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN ART | 5 2 HERBERT BADHAM (1899-1961) Still Life, c.1948 oil on canvasboard 26.5 x 21.0cm (10 7/16 x 8 1/4in). $6,000 - 8,000 Provenance The Estate of the Artist, Sydney thence by descent Private collection, Victoria 6 | BONHAMS 3 HERBERT BADHAM (1899-1961) Mentone, 1936 signed and dated lower right: 'HBADHAM 36'; inscribed verso: 'MENTONE / HERBERT BAD' oil on canvas on board 20.0 x 25.5cm (7 7/8 x 10 1/16in). $8,000 - 12,000 Provenance The Estate of the Artist, Sydney thence by descent Private collection, Victoria IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN ART | 7 4 HERBERT BADHAM (1899-1961) South Head, 1935 signed and dated lower left: 'HBADHAM 35' oil on cardboard 51.0 x 41.0cm (20 1/16 x 16 1/8in). $50,000 - 70,000 Apart from a flirtation with abstraction in the 1950s, his subject is always the everyday. Its expressions seems safe, within the Provenance conversation of the English realist tradition. Badham manages to reach The Estate of the Artist, Sydney far beyond such confines, however, to observe and comment upon thence by descent society of his own place and time’.1 Private collection, Victoria At the time he painted South Head, Badham was living in Crescent Exhibited Avenue, Vaucluse, a location which featured in earlier works such Herbert Badham 1899 - 1961, Wollongong City Gallery, New South as On The Roof 1928, which, as the title suggests was set atop his Wales, 27 August - 4 October 1987, then touring, S.H.