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Justin Maurice O'Brien Australia, 1917-96
Number of Works: 582, Results Page: 2
Brian and Molly Midlane, C.1945
Oil on canvas, 55 x 29.5 cm
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Still Life with Apples
Watercolour, signed upper left, 27 x 29 cm
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Still Life
Oil on board, signed and dated 1936 lower right, 60 x 44 cm
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Two Figures in a Room, C.1990-93
Oil on canvas, signed upper left O'Brien, 98.5 x 70.5 cm
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The Visitation, C.1990-93
Oil on canvas, signed upper right O'Brien, 48 x 39 cm
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Young Girl Arranging Flowers, 1995
Oil on paper, signed upper right O'Brien, inscribed with title verso: Girl Arranging Flowers No 6 5 ['5' in different pen], 56 x 42 cm
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Mending of Nets (1949)
Oil on canvas, signed 'O'Brien' upper left, 36 x 41 cm.
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Study of a Man with Peaked Cap, 1942
Oil on board, signed & dated upper left. Macquarie Galleries label verso. Also inscription with cat #26075, & Hurstville address for Mrs J O'Brien. 'At the beginning of the war O'Brien joined the Australian Army Medical Corps and in 1940 was sent to Palestine and then almost immediately to Greece. There, when the day's duties were completed he found some time to work. He painted mainly heads and his sitters were people of all ages and nationalities. Clearly, the tranquil portrait heads of the later 1950s and 1960s must, to some extent, have been pre-figured in the sketches painted during this time. At Ekali in Greece he was taken prisoner and was destined to spend the rest of the war in prison camps. After seven months in Athens he was sent to Torun in Poland where he arrived at the end of December 1941. Many of the studies he had made in Athens he was able to take with him to Poland The years spent in Poland were not completely wasted; he was able to complete a large number of drawings and he painted heads of other prisoners. The paints were provided by the Red Cross and for 'canvas' the cardboard containers of Red Cross parcels were used. At the end of the war O'Brien returned to Australia and the pictures painted during the years in Poland were shown at the Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, in March 1944' (Kenneth Hood, Justin O'Brien, in Art and Australia December 1969, Vol. 7, Number 3, pp. 220-224). For a related image see Christie's London 28/11/1991 lot 88, 40 x 28.5 cm
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Vase of Flowers
Oil on board, signed lower right: O'Brien, 41 x 30 cm
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Wildflowers Greece 1965
Oil on canvas, inscribed verso with title and dated Aug 1965, Newspaper cutting introducing Macquarie Galleries exhibition attached verso, 49 x 34 cm
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The Student
Oil on paper on soft board, signed upper right, 35 x 22 cm
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Ecce Homo
Mixed media on card, signed lower right corner 'O'Brien' and inscribed lower middle 'Ecce Homo, 27.5 x 14.5 cm
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Courtyard of the Family Home, 15 Greenbank St, Hurstville, C1944-45
Oil on canvas on board, unsigned, letter of authenticity from Joseph O'Brien dated 1996, 33 x 43 cm
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Still Life with Green Pot, 1937.
Oil on canvas on board, signed & dated upper right, 67 x 50 cm
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Sacred Heart of Christ, 1935.
Oil & gilt on board, signed & dated lower right, 45 x 28 cm
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The Student
Oil on paper on soft board, signed upper right, postcard with, 35 x 22 cm
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The First Mrs Kmitt, C1950s
Oil on board, signed lower right, 75.5 x 55.5 cm
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The Student
Oil on paper on soft board, signed upper right, postcard, 35 x 22 cm
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Study for the Entombment
Watercolour, crayon and ink on paper on card, 31 x 36 cm
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Boy in Red Jacket In Landscape (1982)
Oil on paper on board, signed 'O'Brien' upper right, 66 x 48 cm
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Figures in a Procession
Pencil and oil on board, signed upper right corner 'O'Brien, 34.5 x 23 cm
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Untitled (Landscape)
Oil on board, signed upper left, 33.5 x 46.5 cm
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Standing Nude, 1970
Ink and wash (AF), signed and dated upper right, 49.5 x 37.5 cm
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Panegyric Skyros
Oil on paper on board, signed upper right O'Brien, 40.5 x 29.5 cm
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The First Mrs Kmitt, C1950
Oil on board, signed lower right O'Brien, 75.5 x 55.5 cm
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Still Life Against a Window, 1981
Oil on canvas, signed upper right: O'Brien, 121 x 78 cm
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Maremma Landscape (1986)
Oil on canvas, signed 'O'Brien' upper right, 49.2 x 66 cm
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The Draught of Fishes (1946)
Oil on canvas on board, signed 'O'Brien' upper right, 75.5 x 60.3 cm
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Native Flowers in a Blue Vase
Ink and watercolour on paper, 46 x 32.5 cm
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Under the Pergola
Lithograph #9/100, signed in pencil lower right, 52 x 68 cm
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Christ in Reflection
Pen and watercolour, signed lower right, 36 x 29 cm
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The Upper Town, Skyros C.1968
Ink on paper, signed upper right O'Brien, 23.5 x 34 cm
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Young Girl in a Mantilla, 1993
Oil on canvas, signed upper right O'Brien, 59 x 46 cm
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Meditation
Pen and watercolour wash, signed lower right, 36 x 28 cm
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Woman Talking to an Angel in a Tree, (1976)
Oil on canvas, signed upper right 'O'Brien', inscribed verso with title: Woman talking to an Angel in a Tree, 47.5 x 35.5 cm
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Sorbe
Watercolour, signed upper right, titled verso, 30 x 39.5 cm
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The Hayshed 1937
Oil on board, signed and dated lower right Justin O'Brien 1937, 32 x 35 cm
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Still Life with Angel Fresco, 1972
Oil on composition board, signed lower right: O'BRIEN bears inscription verso: 18, 73.5 x 54.5 cm
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Skyros Evening I, 1968
Oil on canvas on composition board, signed upper right: O'Brien bears inscription verso: 11, 53 x 60 cm
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Still Life on a Window Ledge, 1993
Oil on paper on board, signed lower right: O'BRIEN, 48 x 33 cm
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Dormition of the Virgin, C.1988
Oil on canvas, signed upper right O'Brien, 47.5 x 65 cm
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Procession, 1964
Oil on paper on panel, signed upper right 'O Brien', 41 x 29.5 cm
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Study of Still Life on a Terrace
Ink and pencil on paper, signed upper right O'Brien, 45.5 x 33.5 cm
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Study for Venus on a Terrace
Ink and pencil on paper, signed upper right O'Brien, 32 x 28 cm
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Madonna and Child Against Landscape, 1974
Sepia ink and pencil on paper, signed and dated upper right O'Brien '74, 49.5 x 68.5 cm
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Three Jugglers, 1955
Oil on canvas, signed upper right O'Brien, inscribed verso: Justin O'Brien / 'The Jugglers' / …, 56 x 69.5 cm
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Bathers, 1946
Oil on canvas on board, signed lower right O'Brien, inscribed verso: RRNZ / COL, 104 x 40.5 cm
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Palm Sunday (1962)
Oil and gold leaf on composition board, signed 'O'Brien' lower right, 61 x 45.8 cm
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