Lot 18
  • 18

Emanuel Phillips Fox

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 AUD
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Description

  • Emanuel Phillips Fox
  • ARAB MARKET PLACE
  • Signed E.P. Fox (lower left); bears artist's name and alternate title The Desert Market on gallery label on reverse
  • Oil on panel
  • 15.3 by 21cm
  • Painted in 1911

Provenance

James R. Lawson's Auctioneers, Sydney
The late Dr and Mrs D. R. Sheumack; purchased from the above in 1957; thence by descent

Exhibited

The D. R. Sheumack Collection of Australian Paintings, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 17 May - 12 June 1983, cat. 29
E. Phillips Fox, 1865 - 1915, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 9 November 1994 - 30 January 1995, cat. 45 (bears label on reverse)

Literature

Robyn Christie and Justin Miller, The D. R. Sheumack Collection, Eighty Years of Australian Paintings, Sydney: Sotheby's Australia Pty. Ltd., 1988, pl. 14 (illus.)
Ruth Zubans, E Phillips Fox: his life and art, Melbourne: The Miegunyuah Press, 1995, facing p. 164 (illus.), pp. 226- 227 (cat. 359) (as 'The desert market')

Condition

This painting is in good original condition.
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