Coolabah Art features some of Australia’s best known artist’s works for sale. Whether you are buying art for art’s sake or for an investment you have come to the right place, it’s cool to invest in art!
Kevin Best - Showers at Sunset
Painting Title: Showers at Sunset. Artist name: Kevin Best. Painting Medium: Oil on Board. Painting Dimensions: 50 x 61 cm. Frame Dimensions: 67 x 77 cm. Signed: Signed lower right. Titled to verso. Provenance: Private collection, Victoria. Other: Price includes GST.
$1,795
Ernest Buckmaster - River Scene
Painting Title: River Scene. Artist name: Ernest Buckmaster. Painting Medium: Oil on Canvas. Painting Dimensions: 61 x 83 cm. Frame Dimensions: 75 x 98 cm. Signed: Signed lower left. Provenance: Private collection, Melbourne. Other: Price includes GST.
$6,295
Ray Crooke - Fijian Village
Title: Fijian Village. Artist name: Ray Crooke. Year: 1991. Painting Medium: Limited Edition Print on high quality paper. Edition 117/175. Painting Dimensions: 48 x 73 cm (image). Frame Dimensions: 75 x 100 cm. Signed: Numbered "117/175" lower left, titled lower center & signed and dated lower right. Provenance: Private collection, Victoria. Other: New frame. Price includes GST.
$3,495
Justin O'Brien - Portrait of a Man
Painting Title: Portrait of a Man. Artist name: Justin O'Brien. Painting Medium: Oil on Canvas. Painting Dimensions: 61 x 50 cm. Frame Dimensions: 82 x 71 cm. Signed: Signed lower right. Provenance: The collection of Mr M. Levy, Tome c.1970, The collection of Mr Henri Perez, Paris (acquired from the above), Private collection, Melbourne. Other: Doubles sided (painting on reverse). New frame. Price includes GST.
$9,950
John Earle - Looking Towards Lorne
Painting Title: Looking Towards Lorne. Artist name: John Earle. Painting Medium: Gouache on Board. Painting Dimensions: 30 x 47 cm. Frame Dimensions: 53 x 69 cm. Signed: Signed lower right. Provenance: Private collection, Sydney. Other: New frame. Price includes GST.
$1,495
Ernest Buckmaster - Still Life
Painting Title: Still Life. Artist name: Ernest Buckmaster. Painting Medium: Oil on Canvas. Painting Dimensions: 69 x 83 cm. Frame Dimensions: 85 x 100 cm. Signed: Signed lower right. Provenance: Private collection, Melbourne. Other: Price includes GST.
$5,950
Peter D. Cole - Untitled Abstract
Painting Title: Untitled Abstract. Artist name: Peter D. Cole. Painting Medium: Pastel on Paper. Painting Dimensions: 121 x 79.5 cm (sheet). Frame Dimensions: 137 x 95 cm. Signed: Signed lower right. Provenance: Private collection, Melbourne. Other: Price includes GST.
$1,995
John Earle - Fairlight Pool
Painting Title: Fairlight Pool. Artist name: John Earle. Painting Medium: Gouache. Painting Dimensions: 42 x 75 cm. Frame Dimensions: 68 x 101 cm. Signed: Signed lower right. Titled to verso. Provenance: Private collection, Sydney. Other: Price includes GST.
$1,995
Patrick Kilvington - Bringing in the Preacher
Painting Title: Bringing in the Preacher. Artist name: Patrick Kilvington. Year: 1981. Painting Medium: Oil on Board. Painting Dimensions: 30 x 40 cm. Frame Dimensions: 51 x 61 cm. Signed: Signed lower right. Titled, signed and dated to verso. Provenance: Private collection, Melbourne. Other: Price includes GST.
$2,295
Rick Amor - Pear Tree
Painting Title: Pear Tree. Artist name: Rick Amor. Year: 1977. Painting Medium: Oil on Canvas. Painting Dimensions: 20.3 x 25 cm. Frame Dimensions: 31 x 36 cm. Signed: Signed and dated lower right. Titled, signed and dated to verso. Provenance: Private collection, Melbourne. Other: Price includes GST.
$5,495
Helen Norton - The Bride Faces the Storm
Painting Title: The Bride Faces the Storm. Artist name: Helen Norton. Year: 1998. Painting Medium: Oil on Belgian Linen. Painting Dimensions: 75 x 90 cm. Frame Dimensions: 94 x 109 cm. Signed: Signed and dated lower right. Titled, signed and dated to verso. Provenance: Private collection, Melbourne. Other: Price includes GST.
$3,750
James Gleeson - The Apples of Hesperides
Painting Title: The Apples of Hesperides. Artist name: James Gleeson. Painting Medium: Oil on Board. Painting Dimensions: 15 x 11 cm. Frame Dimensions: 34 x 30 cm. Titled: Titled to verso on original frame "James T. Gleeson No.11 The Apples of Hesperides". Provenance: Private collection, Melbourne. Other: New frame. Price includes GST.
$4,395
Jamie Boyd - Nude Study
Painting Title: Nude Study. Artist name: Jamie Boyd. Painting Medium: Pastel on Paper. Painting Dimensions: 45 x 61 cm. Frame Dimensions: 67 x 81.5 cm. Signed: Signed lower right. Provenance: Private collection, Melbourne. Other: Price includes GST.
$1,695
Vic Collins - Lost a Bloody Again
Painting Title: Lost a Bloody Again. Artist name: Vic Collins. Painting Medium: Oil on Board. Painting Dimensions: 30 x 60 cm. Frame Dimensions: 35 x 65 cm. Signed: Lower Left. Provenance: Private collection, Adelaide. Other: Price includes GST.
$2,295
Albert Tucker - Parrot in Gum
Painting Title: Parrot in Gum. Artist name: Albert Tucker. Year: Circa 1980s. Painting Medium: Oil on Canvas Board. Painting Dimensions: 35 x 45 cm. Frame Dimensions: 54 x 64 cm. Signed: Lower Left. Provenance: Likely The Art World Pty Ltd, Brisbane (cat #BA1); Deceased Estate, Townsville, Qld; thence by descent. Other: Price includes GST.
$13,495
Albert Namatjira - Flinders Ranges
Painting Title: Flinders Ranges. Artist name: Albert Namatjira. Painting Medium: Watercolor on Paper. Painting Dimensions: 34 x 51 cm. Frame Dimensions: 70 x 86 cm. Signed: Signed lower left. Provenance: Private Collection, Noosa, Qld. Other: New frame. Price includes GST.
$PoA
Howard Arkley - House
Painting Title: House. Artist name: Howard Arkley. Painting Medium: Synthetic Polymer Paint on Paper. Painting Dimensions: 55 x 74 cm. Frame Dimensions: 82 x 103 cm. Signed: Signed in pencil verso. Provenance: Artistry Galleries, Cheltenham, Melbourne (label attached verso); Private Collection, Melbourne; Lawsons Sale 7872B, Lot 69; Private Collection, Sydney. Other: Price includes GST.
$PoA
Albert Namatjira - Ghost Gum and Red Rock
Painting Title: Ghost Gum and Red Rock. Artist name: Albert Namatjira. Painting Medium: Watercolor on Paper. Painting Dimensions: 26.5 x 35.5 cm. Frame Dimensions: 61 x 70 cm. Signed: Signed lower right. Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney. Other: Price includes GST.
$PoA
Arthur Boyd - White Nebuchadnezzar with Lion
Painting Title: White Nebuchadnezzar with Lion. Artist name: Arthur Boyd. Year: circa 1966 - 68. Painting Medium: Oil on Canvas. Painting Dimensions: 63.5 x 76 cm. Frame Dimensions: 64 x 76.5 cm. Signed: Lower right. Bears inscription verso, 7. Provenance: Private collection Sydney. Thence by descent. Private collection Sydney, acquired in 1993. Exhibited: Possibly, Arthur Boyd, Adelaide Festival of Arts Exhibition, Bonython Art Gallery, Adelaide 10-28 March 1968, cat. 37. Possibly, Arthur Boyd, Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney 8-24 April 1968, cat. 37. Other: Price includes GST. Information: According to the Old Testament, Nebuchadnezzar, king of ancient Babylon (602-562BCE), was a successful ruler who fell from grace for placing his own self-aggrandisement before God. As punishment for his pride and arrogance, he thus lost his sanity and was banished into the wilderness for seven years where he underwent various trials and tribulations: ‘...his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass ...
$Sold
Charles Blackman - Young Girl and Old Cat
Painting Title: Young Girl and Old Cat. Artist name: Charles Blackman. Painting Medium: Oil on Canvas, stretched over Board. Painting Dimensions: 124.5 x 156 cm. Frame Dimensions: 133 x 164 cm. Signed: Top right. Provenance: Christie's London, 28th November 1991, lot 58; The estate of the artist Gerald Moore, by whom bequeathed it to Eltham College, London.
$Sold
Ben Quilty - Private Cary Adams
Painting Title: Private Cary Adams, 7RAR, 69-70. Artist name: Ben Quilty. Year: 2014. Painting Medium: Oil on Linen. Painting Dimensions: 80 x 70 cm. Frame Dimensions: 84 x 74 cm. Signed & Titled Verso. Provenance: Pearl Lam Galleries "Straight White Male" exhibition Hong Kong, February 2015. Private Collection, Victoria. Other: This painting was part of Ben's solo exhibition "Straight White Male" held at Pearl Lam Galleries in Hong Kong in February 2015. In this exhibition, Ben Quilty subverts the paradigm of masculinity in an ongoing pursuit to find himself.
$Sold
Adam Cullen - Matt Dunning
Painting Title: Matt Dunning (Made with Blood, Sweat and Tears). Artist name: Adam Cullen. Year: 2005. Painting Medium: Acrylic & Enamel on Canvas. Painting Dimensions: 152.5 x 122.5 cm. Frame Dimensions: 155.5 x 125.5 cm. Signed: Titled lower right. Signed, Dated & Titled verso. Provenance: Private Collection, Melbourne. Other: Price includes GST.
$PoA
Robert Dickerson - The Trial
Painting Title: The Trial. Artist name: Robert Dickerson. Painting Medium: Pastel on Paper. Painting Dimensions: 69 x 99 cm. Frame Dimensions: 83 x 113 cm. Signed: Right lower. Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney. Other: Price includes GST.
$29,950
Vincent Namatjira - The First Explorers to Australia
Painting Title: The First Explorers to Australia. Artist name: Vincent Namatjira. Painting Medium: Acrylic on Linen. Painting Dimensions: 61 x 102 cm. Signed: Signed and titled verso. Provenance: Private Collection, South Australia. Other: Price includes GST. Comes with Iwantja Arts & Crafts Certificate of Authenticity Cat. no. 694-13A.
$23,950
Haughton Forrest - Unloading the Shipwreck
Painting Title: Unloading the Shipwreck. Artist name: Haughton Forrest. Painting Medium: Oil on Canvas. Painting Dimensions: 51 x 76 cm. Frame Dimensions: 75 x 101 cm. Signed: Signed lower left. Provenance: Private Collection, Victoria. Other: Price includes GST.
$17,950
John Olsen - Pelican Dance
Painting Title: Pelican Dance. Artist name: John Olsen. Year: 1972. Painting Medium: Watercolor, Ink & Pencil on Paper. Painting Dimensions: 36 x 54 cm. Frame Dimensions: 54 x 70.5 cm. Signed: Signed and dated lower right. Provenance: Lidums Gallery, Adelaide 1972, Private collection, Western Australia, Leonard Joel, Melbourne, Fine Art, 4 June 2019, Lot 83, Private collection, Melbourne Other: New frame. Price includes GST.
$14,995
Ray Crooke - Evening Shadows
Painting Title: Evening Shadows. Artist name: Ray Crooke. Painting Medium: Oil on Canvas on Board. Painting Dimensions: 42 x 56 cm. Frame Dimensions: 66 x 81 cm. Signed: Signed lower left, titled to verso. Provenance: Private collection, Perth. Other: Stock number 11752/C/5. Price includes GST.
$12,950
Russell Drysdale - The Spieler
Painting Title: The Spieler. Artist name: Russell Drysdale. Year: 1980. Painting Medium: Ink and Wash on Paper. Painting Dimensions: 40.5 x 29 cm. Frame Dimensions: 53 x 40 cm. Signed: Signed lower right, titled verso. Provenance: David Driden, Clarendon, SA. Private Collection, SA. Other: Price includes GST.
$11,995
D'Arcy Doyle - The Baker's Cart
Painting Title: The Baker's Cart. Artist name: D'Arcy Doyle. Painting Medium: Oil on Board. Painting Dimensions: 50 x 60 cm. Frame Dimensions: 62 x 72 cm. Signed: Signed lower right. Provenance: Private Collection, Melbourne. Leonard Joel, August 2021, lot 111. Other: Price includes GST.
$11,250
