b'168Nineteen artworks from the1184CONRAD MARTENS (1801-1878),estate of the late Joyce Evans(One of the falls on the Apsley), of Melbourne, (19291919) circa 1873,watercolour and bodycolour on board,Lots 11841202 signed lower right,27 x 41cm; framed 40.5 x 54cm overall.Joyce Olga Evans OAM, B.A., Dip. Soc. Stud. was a photographer,PROVENANCEactive as an amateur from the 1950s and professional photographicThe Joyce Evans estate.artist from the 1980s, director of the Church Street PhotographyExplorer John Oxley first described Centre in Melbourne (19761982), art curator and collector, andthe Apsley Falls, New South Wales, in tertiary photography lecturer. She studied painting with John OlsenSeptember 1818, writing in his journal that at the Bakery Art School, Sydney in 1967/1968, but later fell in lovehe was lost in astonishment at the sight with photography at the Basel Art Fair, which led first to a career asof this wonderful natural sublimity and a gallerist, then as a practicing photographer. We are delighted tothat it is impossible to form a correct idea offer the following 19 items, which were amongst the eclectic mix ofof the wild magnificence of the scenery artworks that filled her home and workspaces. without the pencil of a Salvator. Such a painter would here find an ample field for the exercise of his genius. By the time Conrad Martens visited the falls in 1852, they were a renowned sight. Martens produced three different paintings of falls on the Apsley during the following two decades. A detailed pencil study, The Apsley at Waterloo, shows that the dramatic rock formations are the real focus of the work. Martens interest in geology was of long standing. A South American sketchbook by him exists containing views of mountains, valleys and coastal profiles taken in 1834 while he was on board the survey ship the Beagle, and it is recorded that he had borrowed Charles Lyells Principles of Geology from Charles Darwin before the voyage began. A related work of identical size, being the same view from a slightly different angle (titled The Tia Falls, Northern New South Wales), was sold by Sothebys (Sydney) in August 2011 for $60,000 (including buyers premium). Another version, titled as above, is in the NGV collection.$20,00030,0001185 1185HENRI BASTIN (1896-1979),Central Australian Landscape,gouache on board,signed and dated 1959 lower right; titled verso,36 x 46cm; framed 56 x 66cm overall.$6008001186JAMES TIMOTHY GLEESON (1915-2008),Supplication,oil on board,signed lower right,15 x 12.5cm.PROVENANCESothebys, Melbourne, Fine Australian Art, November 2005, Lot 94.$1,5002,0001188'