Children Playing, Powlett Reserve, East Melbourne 1960s
Oil on canvas board 35 x 45 cm Provenance: Estate of the artist
Joyce Meier
1917 - 2015
Joyce Meier studied at the National Gallery School regularly painting with fellow students Graeme King, Ian Armstrong, Laurie Phillips and later Fred Williams. She won a number of awards including 1st prize Drawing from Life, Best Picture Full or ¾ Nude and Best Genre Painting from Contemporary Life. After the War, Joyce returned to the National Gallery School and studied under Alan Sumner who became her mentor and life-long friend.
"Full of colour and joy, Meier favoured scenes of children and women early in her career, later turning her hand to wildlife portraits, lithographs, stained glass, wood carving and even enamel jewellery-making . She drew inspiration from her years in Palestine during the war, for which she interrupted her studies at the National Gallery School in Melbourne ... introducing rugged landscapes and groups of women, some of them veiled, into her painted work." extract Canvases testament to a life's work, Dewi Cooke, The Age, 2013
Standing Figure 1949
Lithograph 42 x 17 cm A copy of this print has been acquired by the National Gallery of Australia Provenance.....
Park Speeches, Design for Lithograph 1949
Ink, watercolour and gouache 18 x 24.5 cm Inscribed Original Sketch for Lithograph $950
The Mess Hall, Gaza
Design for Lithograph 1949Ink, watercolour and gouache14.6 x 14.6 cm$850
Major Mitchells (green)
Hand-pressed linocut on rice paper 57 x 45 cm
Barron Falls, Queensland, May 31st, 1945
Watercolour and pencil 34 x 50 cm Inscribed with title and dated $750
Major Mitchells
Hand-pressed linocut on rice paper 57 x 45 cm
The Potters Workshop, Palestine c1941-42
Watercolour 27 x 30.5 cm $750
Galahs
Linocut on rice paper 59 x 45.5 cm
Galahs (quartet)
Hand-pressed linocut on rice paper 54 x 42 cm Provenance: Estate of the artist
Galahs (trio)
Linocut on rice paper 55 x 45.5 cm unframed
Girl with Birds
Linocut35 x 28 cm$700
Great Eastern Egret (trio)
Linocut on rice paper 45.5 x 34.6 cm
The Palestinian c1941-42
Watercolour and pencil 30 x 23.5 cm $650
Young Boy, Moratai, August 1945
Watercolour 28 x 19 cm Inscribed Labuan and dated August '45 $650
Young Mother, Labuan c1945
Watercolour 28 x 19 cm Inscribed Labuan
Arabian Oryx Family Group
Linocut on rice paper 34.5. x 55 cm Unframed
Cockatiels
Hand-pressed linocut on rice paper 43 x 35 cm
Great Eastern Egrets (duo)
Hand-pressed linocut on rice paper 47 x 39 cm
Little Egrets (Duo)
Hand pressed linocut on rice paper 42 x 38 cm
Galahs (pair)
Hand-pressed linocut on lithograph paper 51 x 38 cm
Greater Glider (pair)
Linocut on rice paper64 x 47 cm $600
Greater Glider (trio)
Linocut on rice paper60 x 45 cm $600
Kangaroos
Linocut on rice paper 38 x 48.5 cm
Koalas
Linocut on lithograph paper 38 x 48.5 cm