TASMAN YOUNG, (AUSTRALIAN, EARLY 20TH CENTURY)

The Antarctic Whaling Fleet from the icepack, with a coal cairn in foreground

Signed 'Tas Young' (lower right) and provenance on separate sheet dated 1923-24 (torn and fragile)

Oil on hardboard

10 x 19in. (25.5 x 48cm.)

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Provenance: Alan Villiers collection and thence by descent

The note accompanying this lot, written by Villiers, reads: This is the effort of a Tasmanian seaman named Tasman Young who was one of the whalemen in the Sandefjord whaling fleet to the Ross Sea in 1923-24, when I was there, having found joined with 10/12 others at Hobart, where the ship touched to take more bunkers and 10/12 men… Here with ships people have set up a refuge with some coal etc for one of the small chasers, missing at the time: the depot was at Discovery Inlet: See my Whaling in the Frozen South / Bobbs Merrill U.S. 1925/31 Geoffrey Bles(?) Hurst and Blackett Lon 1925.

Condition Report

Good overall condition, some rubbing along extreme lower edge.

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