Lot 3
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Arthur Streeton

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 AUD
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Description

  • Arthur Streeton
  • GRAND CANAL, VENICE
  • Signed A.S (lower right); bears artist's name and alternate title Palazzo Labia Venice (on reverse)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 34.5 by 44.5cm
  • Painted in 1908

Provenance

James R. Lawson's Auctioneers, Sydney, 1969
The late Dr and Mrs D. R. Sheumack, Sydney; purchased from the above; thence by descent

Exhibited

The D. R. Sheumack Collection of Australian Paintings, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 15 May - 12 June 1983, cat. 99

Literature

Robyn Christie and Justin Miller, The D. R. Sheumack Collection, Eighty Years of Australian Paintings, Sydney: Sotheby's Australia Pty. Ltd., 1988, pl. 19 (illus.)
Anne Galbally, Arthur Streeton, Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, 1969, p. 83, cat. 139

Condition

This work is unlined and has the original stretcher. There is an area of stable fine drying cracks (lower left). This painting has recently been professionally cleaned and varnished. It is is good original condition.
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Catalogue Note

We are most grateful to Oliver Streeton for his assistance in catalogue this work.