ARTHUR STREETON
1867-1943
Evening Game 1889
$400,000–600,000
PROPERTY FORMERLY FROM THE COLLECTION OF PROFESSOR HENRY LAURIE AND MRS FRANCES LAURIE, MELBOURNE
ARTHUR STREETON
1867-1943
Evening Game 1889
oil on cardboard
inscribed 'EvEning Game' lower left; signed and dated 'StreEten 89' lower right
13.3 x 23.3 cm
- Lot Sold $760,000 (Hammer Price)
- $932,727 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Arthur Streeton, Melbourne
Professor Henry Laurie and Mrs Frances Laurie, Melbourne, acquired from the above in August 1889
A Fine Collection of Australian, English and European Paintings, Decoration Co., Melbourne, 18 November 1953, lot 107, 'Looking Towards Melbourne from the Yarra, 1881'
Private Collection, Melbourne
Private Collection, Sydney, by descent from the above
Exhibited
The 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition, Buxton's Art Gallery, Melbourne, 17 August 1889, no. 145, 2 gns
Moonrise, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, 30 November 1973 - 21 January 1974, no. 41 (label verso)
Arthur Streeton 1867-1943, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 8 December 1995 - 12 February 1996; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1 March - 14 April 1996; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 2 May - 16 June 1996; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 9 July - 25 August 1996; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 October - 24 November 1996, no. 17, illustrated (label verso)
Australian Impressionism, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 31 March - 8 July 2007, no. 9.52, illustrated
Streeton, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 7 November 2020 - 14 February 2021, illustrated
She-Oak and Sunlight: Australian Impressionism, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square, 2 April - 22 August 2021
Literature
Art and Artists', Table Talk, Melbourne, 23 August 1889, p. 4
Ann Galbally, Arthur Streeton, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1969, cat. no. 31, p. 92
Geoffrey Smith, Arthur Streeton 1867-1943, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 48, 49 (illustrated)
Terence Lane, Australian Impressionism, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2007, pp. 178 (illustrated), 334, 351
Wayne Tunnicliffe (ed.), Streeton, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2021, pp. 59 (illustrated), 368
Anne Gray and Angela Hesson (eds), She-Oak and Sunlight: Australian Impressionism, National Gallery of Victoria in association with Thames & Hudson, Melbourne, 2021, p. 284
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