Ivan Durrant Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Ivan Durrant Art Value Price Guide

Jul. 18, 2024
IVAN JOHN DURRANT, MORNING FOG 1969, OIL ON BOARD, SIGNED AND DATED DURRANT '69 LOWER LEFT, 60 X 74.5CM, FRAME SIZE: 70.5 X 85CM P...
Est: $2,000 - $4,000
IVAN JOHN DURRANT, MORNING FOG 1969, OIL ON BOARD, SIGNED AND DATED DURRANT '69 LOWER LEFT, 60 X 74.5CM, FRAME SIZE: 70.5 X 85CM PROVENANCE: TOLARNO GALLERIES, MELBOURNE (LABEL VERSO)
Leonard Joel
Jul. 30, 2023
Ivan Durrant, Australian 1947, Striped Sox, oil on board, 60 by 75.5cm
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Ivan Durrant Australian, 1947 Striped Sox oil on board signed and dated 69 lower left Provenance: Tolarno galleries Melbourne ( Georges Mora ) 42 Fitzroy street St Kilda
For-Auction
Feb. 15, 2023
IVAN DURRANT, THE WINNER, 1973
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
IVAN DURRANT born 1947 THE WINNER, 1973 from the A DAY AT THE CAULFIELD RACES series oil on composition board 122.5 x 107.0 cm 128.0 x 111.0 cm (frame) signed and dated lower left: I. DURRANT '73. PROVENANCE Private collection, Victoria, acquired directly from the artist © Ivan Durrant/Copyright Agency 2023 This work is located in our Melbourne Gallery
Deutscher and Hackett
Feb. 15, 2023
IVAN DURRANT, FRANK SINATRA, 1974
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
IVAN DURRANT born 1947 FRANK SINATRA, 1974 from the FILM STAR series oil on composition board 122.0 x 107.0 cm 123.5 x 108.0 cm (frame) signed and dated lower left: I. DURRANT. '74. PROVENANCE Private collection, Victoria, acquired directly from the artist © Ivan Durrant/Copyright Agency 2023 This work is located in our Melbourne Gallery
Deutscher and Hackett
Feb. 22, 2022
IVAN DURRANT, SEVEN PEOPLE IN THE SNOW, 1975
Est: $15,000 - $20,000
IVAN DURRANT born 1947 SEVEN PEOPLE IN THE SNOW, 1975 synthetic polymer paint on composition board 113.5 x 174.5 cm signed and dated lower right: I. DURRANT. ’75. inscribed with title on label attached verso: SEVEN PEOPLE IN THE SNOW PROVENANCE Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne The National Australia Bank Art Collection, acquired from the above in 1975 (label attached verso) EXHIBITED Probably: The Great Fancy Dress Ball, Race Crowds: Ivan Durrant; Recent Paintings, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, September – November 1975 Ivan Durrant, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 12 May - 17 June 1979 The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries from the Collection of National Australia Bank, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 15 October – 28 November 1982 (label attached verso) The Seventies Exhibition: Selected Paintings from the National Australia Bank Collection, MacLaurin Hall, The University of Sydney, Sydney, 6 September - 1 October 1989, cat. 10 'The Seventies' Exhibition: Selected Paintings from the National Australia Bank Collection 'Modern Art of the Seventies', Caulfield Arts Complex Gallery, Caulfield City Hall, Melbourne, 18 January - 11 February 1990, cat. 4 The Seventies: Contemporary Australian Paintings from the National Australia Bank Collection, organised by Regional Galleries Association of New South Wales, New South Wales, cat. 10; and touring, Tamworth City Art Gallery, New South Wales, 24 May – 24 June 1990; Dubbo Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, 11 July – 6 August 1990; Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, New South Wales, 17 August – 10 September 1990; Moree Plains Regional Gallery, New South Wales, 3 October – 31 October 1990 A Day at the Caulfield Races, Caulfield Arts Complex Gallery, Caulfield City Hall, Melbourne, 4 December 1993 - 23 January 1994 Ivan Durrant: Barrier Draw, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 1 May – 25 October 2020 LITERATURE Catalano, G., ‘Crazy Bugger’, The Bulletin, Sydney, vol. 97, no. 4980, 25 October 1975, pp. 64 – 65 Lindsay, R., The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries from the Collection of National Australia Bank, The National Bank of Australasia, Melbourne, 1982, pl. 35, p. 48 (illus.) Clarke, A., 'Collection too good to be dispersed', The Age, Melbourne, 15 October 1982, p. 14 (illus.) Dickins, B., Ivan Durrant: Barrier Draw, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2020, pp. 56 (illus.), 160 ESSAY After moving to Flinders on the Mornington Peninsula in 1970, Ivan Durrant obtained a training licence and began to train his racehorse Gadshill, who had been bought with the proceeds of his first sell-out solo exhibition, The Country Family at Georges Mora’s Tolarno Galleries in St Kilda. The artist’s love of the racetrack and everything associated with it, as well as with cattle and farm life, has been a constant of his career since that time. Seven People in the Snow was painted in the year that Durrant achieved notoriety for the staging of his ‘Slaughtered Cow Happening’ at the National Gallery of Victoria. On 26 May, the artist deposited the freshly killed carcass of ‘Beverley the cow’ on the museum’s forecourt after informing the gallery’s staff that he was donating a sculpture. A comment on the realities behind society’s consumption of meat – the death of an animal, and widely interpreted as an anti-Vietnam War statement – the subsequent media response was conceived as an essential part of the work. The media responded as if to script, with outraged national TV and newspaper coverage. If not known in every Australian household by name, the artist certainly became known around the country for this action. By the mid-1970s Durrant had moved away from the dreamlike naïve style of his early paintings to photo-realism, embraced by the artist for the way in which this new technique offered viewers ‘the joy of observation’ and for its ability to ‘freeze the world in its tracks and take a good hard look.’1 He also came to know and admire the work of American Super-Realist painters Chuck Close and Janet Fish at this time, whose work was shown in Melbourne at Tolarno in 19752; inspiring his family’s relocation to New York early in the following year so that they could ‘get over there and mix it’.3 Durrant subsequently developed friendships with Close and Janet Fish, among other artists, while living there. Durrant began painting scenes from the racetrack in 1975, and he has described Seven People in the Snow as ‘the key one in the racing series and in fact the key painting for the later meat works that followed’.4 Working at his favourite racetrack, Caulfield, and with a new Pentax camera, Durrant’s position above the men enabled him to capture their interactions and body language unobserved, from a bird’s eye perspective. As fellow onlookers, we are left to infer the subject and tone of the punters’ conversation, and to try to perceive whether we have winners or losers below us. The cropping of the legs in the top right-hand corner of the work powerfully conveys the snapshot feel of the painting’s original source, while the tonal range of black, brown and cream in the men’s clothing reinforces the scene’s subdued mood. While we are unable to know if any of the subjects have found themselves richer at this stage of the day, the sheer number of discarded tickets – the work’s ‘snow’, would indicate that there have been far more losers than winners. 1. See Ivan Durrant, ‘Melbourne Artist Ivan Durrant on Super-Realist Art’, https://www.essentialsmagazine.com.au/art/melbourne-artist-ivan-durrant-on-super-realist-art (viewed 2 December 2021) 2. Chuck Close’s now-iconic portrait Bob, 1970 in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra was purchased from this exhibition. 3. Ivan Durrant, op. cit. 4. Durrant, I., ‘Artist’s Statement’, The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries from the Collection of National Australia Bank, National Bank of Australasia, Melbourne, 1982, p. 48 KELLY GELLATLY © Ivan Durrant/Copyright Agency 2022
Deutscher and Hackett
Oct. 03, 2021
IVAN DURRANT (BORN 1947) Horse in Landscape 1972
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
IVAN DURRANT (BORN 1947) Horse in Landscape 1972 oil on board signed and dated lower left: I. DURRANT 72 76 x 90.5cm
Gibson's
Mar. 30, 2021
IVAN DURRANT, CLARK GABLE NIGHT FLIGHT, 1974
Est: $7,000 - $10,000
IVAN DURRANT born 1947 CLARK GABLE NIGHT FLIGHT, 1974 oil on composition board 122.0 x 107.0 cm signed and dated lower left: I. DURRANT. ‘74 inscribed with title verso: CLARK GABLE / NIGHT FLIGHT PROVENANCE Joseph Brown, Melbourne Christie's, Melbourne, 17 May 2005, lot 101 Private collection, Melbourne LITERATURE Thomas, D., Outlines of Australian Art: The Joseph Brown Collection, Macmillan, Melbourne, third edition, 1989, cat. 334, unpaginated (illus.) This item is located at our Melbourne Gallery © Ivan Durrant/Copyright Agency, 2021
Deutscher and Hackett
Mar. 30, 2021
IVAN DURRANT, WINNING BY A HEAD, 1973
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
IVAN DURRANT born 1947 WINNING BY A HEAD, 1973 oil on composition board 107.0 x 122.0 cm signed and dated lower right: I. DURRANT. 73 PROVENANCE Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne Private collection Leonard Joel, Melbourne, lot P25 Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 2002 This item is located at our Melbourne Gallery © Ivan Durrant/Copyright Agency, 2021
Deutscher and Hackett
Dec. 01, 2020
IVAN DURRANT (born 1947) Dog 1970 oil on masonite
Est: $2,000 - $4,000
IVAN DURRANT (born 1947) Dog 1970 oil on masonite signed and dated lower right: I. DURRANT 70 titled and dated verso 60 x 79cm PROVENANCE: Gift of the Artist, 2001 Private collection, Melbourne
Leonard Joel
Dec. 01, 2020
IVAN DURRANT (born 1947) Untitled (From the Jack Frost Series) oil on composition board
Est: $1,800 - $2,800
IVAN DURRANT (born 1947) Untitled (From the Jack Frost Series) oil on composition board 90.5 x 60cm PROVENANCE: Acquired directly from the artist, c.1970 Private collection, Sydney
Leonard Joel
Apr. 30, 2020
IVAN DURRANT (born 1947) Short Memories 1990 screenprint (6) each editioned 30/40
Est: $1,000 - $1,400
IVAN DURRANT (born 1947) Short Memories 1990 screenprint (6) each editioned 30/40 editioned and signed below image size vary
Leonard Joel
Feb. 06, 2020
IVAN DURRANT (born 1947) Short Memories 1990 screenprint (6) each editioned 30/40
Est: $1,400 - $1,600
IVAN DURRANT (born 1947) Short Memories 1990 screenprint (6) each editioned 30/40 editioned and signed below image size vary
Leonard Joel
Dec. 05, 2019
IVAN DURRANT, PIGS HEAD 1982, INK ON PAPER, 46 X 58CM
Est: $140 - $240
IVAN DURRANT, PIGS HEAD 1982, INK ON PAPER, 46 X 58CM
Leonard Joel
Nov. 13, 2019
IVAN DURRANT (born 1947) Short Memories 1990 screenprint (6) each editioned 30/40
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
IVAN DURRANT (born 1947) Short Memories 1990 screenprint (6) each editioned 30/40 editioned and signed below image size vary
Leonard Joel
Oct. 31, 2019
IVAN DURRANT, PIGS HEAD 1982, INK ON PAPER, 46 X 58CM
Est: $200 - $400
IVAN DURRANT, PIGS HEAD 1982, INK ON PAPER, 46 X 58CM
Leonard Joel
Sep. 03, 2019
IVAN DURRANT (born 1947) (Dog) from the Animal and Baby series c.1969-71 oil on board
Est: $2,000 - $4,000
IVAN DURRANT (born 1947) (Dog) from the Animal and Baby series c.1969-71 oil on board 75 x 90cm PROVENANCE: The Artist Private collection, Sydney
Leonard Joel
Aug. 09, 2018
IVAN DURRANT born 1947, Centaur 1973
Est: $7,000 - $10,000
IVAN DURRANT born 1947, Centaur 1973 122.0 x 106.0 cm signed and dated lower left: I. Durrant '73 oil on board
Menzies
Feb. 02, 2017
I. DURRANT, SEASCAPE AT BRIGHTON BEACH, OIL ON MASONITE
Est: $200 - $300
I. DURRANT, SEASCAPE AT BRIGHTON BEACH, OIL ON MASONITE
Leonard Joel
Dec. 22, 2016
Ivan Durrant (1947 - ) - Pigs Head, 1978 53.5 x 66.5cm
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Ivan Durrant (1947 - ) Pigs Head, 1978 oil on board 53.5 x 66.5cm signed and dated lower right
Lawsons
Aug. 25, 2016
IVAN DURRANT (born 1947) (The Wheat Field) 1972 oil on board
Est: $440 - $640
IVAN DURRANT (born 1947) (The Wheat Field) 1972 oil on board signed and dated lower left: I. DURRANT '72. 90 x 120cm PROVENANCE: Private collection, Melbourne
Leonard Joel
Jul. 19, 2016
IVAN DURRANT born 1947 Clark Gable Night Flight 1974 oil on composition board
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
IVAN DURRANT born 1947 Clark Gable Night Flight 1974 oil on composition board signed and dated 'I. DURRANT / '74' lower left; inscribed 'CLARK GABLE / NIGHT FLIGHT' verso 121 x 105.5 cm PROVENANCE Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE, Melbourne Private Collection, Melbourne
Smith & Singer
May. 04, 2016
IVAN DURRANT, born 1947, SEATED RACEGOERS, 1975, synthetic polymer paint on composition board
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
IVAN DURRANT, born 1947, SEATED RACEGOERS, 1975, synthetic polymer paint on composition board SIGNED: signed and dated lower right: I. DURRANT 75 DIMENSIONS: 81.5 - 121.0 cm PROVENANCE: Acquired directly from the artist Private collection, Melbourne EXHIBITED: The Great Fancy Dress Ball, Race Crowds: Ivan Durrant; Recent Paintings, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, 22 March - 3 April 1975 RELATED WORK: Three Fur Hats, 1975, synthetic polymer paint on composition board, 80.0 x 121.5 cm, illus. in Survey 8: Ivan Durant, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1979, pp. 2–3
Deutscher and Hackett
Apr. 28, 2016
IVAN DURRANT (born 1947) (The Wheat Field) 1972 oil on board
Est: $550 - $750
IVAN DURRANT (born 1947) (The Wheat Field) 1972 oil on board signed and dated lower left: I. DURRANT '72. 90 x 120cm PROVENANCE: Private collection, Melbourne
Leonard Joel
Jan. 21, 2016
IVAN DURRANT (born 1947) (The Wheat Field) 1972 oil on board
Est: $700 - $900
IVAN DURRANT (born 1947) (The Wheat Field) 1972 oil on board signed and dated lower left: I. DURRANT '72. 90 x 120cm PROVENANCE: Private collection, Melbourne
Leonard Joel
Dec. 01, 2015
IVAN DURRANT (born 1947) (The Wheat Field) 1972 oil on board
Est: $900 - $1,200
IVAN DURRANT (born 1947) (The Wheat Field) 1972 oil on board signed and dated lower left: I. DURRANT '72. 90 x 120cm PROVENANCE: Private collection, Melbourne
Leonard Joel
Jun. 24, 2012
IVAN DURRANT (BORN 1947) Captain Courageous - Spencer Tracy 1973 acrylic on canvas
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
IVAN DURRANT (BORN 1947) Captain Courageous - Spencer Tracy 1973 acrylic on canvas signed and dated 'I. DURRANT 73' lower right 121.5 x 106.5cm EXHIBITED Possibly, Movie Stars, Tolarno Galleries, April 1974 Possibly, Matinee Movie Stars, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, July 1974
Leonard Joel
Aug. 28, 2011
Ivan Durrant (born 1947) After Death 1969 oil on board
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Ivan Durrant (born 1947) After Death 1969 oil on board signed 'I. DURRANT' lower left 75 x 90cm
Leonard Joel
Aug. 28, 2011
Ivan Durrant (born 1947) Cattle Dog 1969 oil on board
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Ivan Durrant (born 1947) Cattle Dog 1969 oil on board signed 'I. DURRANT' lower left 75 x 90cm
Leonard Joel
Aug. 14, 2011
Ivan Durrant (born 1947) Tree Tops oil on board
Est: $1,800 - $2,500
Ivan Durrant (born 1947) Tree Tops oil on board signed 'I. DURRANT' lower left 60 x 90cm
Leonard Joel
Apr. 20, 2011
IVAN DURRANT CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS-SPENCER TRACY,
Est: $7,000 - $9,000
IVAN DURRANT CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS-SPENCER TRACY, 1973 121.5 x 106.5 cm synthetic polymer paint on composition board
Deutscher and Hackett
Apr. 20, 2011
IVAN DURRANT BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME, JAMES
Est: $7,000 - $9,000
IVAN DURRANT BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME, JAMES CAGNEY, 1974 121.5 x 106.5 cm synthetic polymer paint on composition board
Deutscher and Hackett
Feb. 27, 2011
Ivan Durrant (born 1947) Manta Ray 1997 oil on board
Est: $1,200 - $1,800
Ivan Durrant (born 1947) Manta Ray 1997 oil on board signed and dated 'I. DURRANT 97' lower left 60 x 90cm
Leonard Joel
Oct. 24, 2010
Ivan Durrant (born 1947) Feeding the Birds 1970 oil on board
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
Ivan Durrant (born 1947) Feeding the Birds 1970 oil on board signed 'I. DURRANT 70' lower right 60 x 75cm
Leonard Joel
Aug. 29, 2010
Ivan Durrant (born 1947) The Strapper 1973 acrylic on board
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
Ivan Durrant (born 1947) The Strapper 1973 acrylic on board signed and dated 'I. DURRANT 73' lower left 120 x 105.5cm EXHIBITED Ivan Durrant, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, June 1973, cat. no 10 OTHER NOTES Leonard Joel would like to thank Judy Durrant for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.
Leonard Joel
Jun. 27, 2010
Ivan Durrant (born 1947) Morning oil on board
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
Ivan Durrant (born 1947) Morning oil on board signed 'I. Durrant' lower left bears Tolarno Galleries label with cat. no. 10 verso 60 x 74.5cm
Leonard Joel
Nov. 21, 2006
IVAN DURRANT AUSTRALIAN, B. 1947
Est: $5,000 - $8,000
THE DUKE (JOHN WAYNE) 120.5 by 105 cm Signed and dated 1974 lower right; bears title and date on label on the reverse Synthetic polymer paint on composition board PROVENANCE The artist Purchased by the present owner from Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, in 1999 Private collection, Melbourne EXHIBITED Recent Paintings: Movie Stars, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, April 1974 Matinee Movie Stars, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, July 1974 Annual Collectors' Exhibition, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 5 June - 3 July 1999, cat. 113, illus. p. 77
Sotheby's
Sep. 20, 2005
Ivan John Durrant (Australian, b.1947)
Est: -
Pigeon signed, acrylic on board 61 x 91.4 cm. (24 x 36 in.)
Bonhams
Sep. 20, 2005
Ivan John Durrant (Australian, b.1947)
Est: -
Freisian Cow signed, acrylic on board 76.2 x 91.5 cm. (30 x 36 in.)
Bonhams
Sep. 20, 2005
Ivan John Durrant (Australian, b. 1947)
Est: -
A sheepdog bath signed, acrylic on board 76.2 x 91.4 cm. (30 x 36 in.)
Bonhams
May. 10, 2005
Ivan John Durrant (Australian, 1947- )
Est: -
Pigeon signed 'I Durrant' acrylic on board 61 x 91.4 cm. (24 x 36 in.)
Bonhams
May. 10, 2005
Ivan John Durrant (Australian, 1947- )
Est: -
A sheepdog bath signed 'I Durrant' acrylic on board 76.2 x 91.4 cm. (30 x 36 in.)
Bonhams