Arthur Streeton 1867-1943

• Lot Sold $230,000 (Hammer Price)
• $276,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

OCEAN BLUE, LORNE (1921)

oil on canvas
signed 'A STREETON' lower left
frame: original, John Thallon, Melbourne
64 X 76.5CM

PROVENANCE
Mrs Arthur Streeton, Melbourne
Mr Oliver Streeton, Melbourne
Miss Una Cato, Melbourne, 1937
Dr Una B. Porter, Melbourne
Australian Paintings, Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 6 July 1983, lot 66, 'Ocean Blue', illustrated
Mrs Florence Violet Hale Lawrence, Melbourne
The Estate of the Late Mrs Florence Violet Hale Lawrence, Melbourne

EXHIBITED
Annual Autumn Exhibition, Victorian Artists' Society, Melbourne, 25 May - 12 June 1921, no. 35, 'Ocean solitude, Lorne', £210.0.0
Exhibition of Paintings by Arthur Streeton [preview for Adelaide], Victorian Artists' Society, Melbourne, 5-6 July 1921
Exhibition of Paintings by Arthur Streeton, South Australian Society of Fine Arts, Adelaide, 16 July 1921, no. 18
Recent Australian Landscape by Arthur Streeton, Education Department, Sydney, 21-28 November 1921, no. 3, 'Blue Ocean (Lorne)', (200 gns)
Loan Exhibition of the Works of Arthur Streeton, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 November 1931 - 20 January 1932, no. 78, 'Ocean Blue'
A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Arthur Streeton, The Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, 15-26 August 1933, no. 1, 'Ocean Blue', (200 gns)
Sir Arthur Streeton's Exhibition of Paintings, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, 24 August - 4 September 1937, no. 9, 'Ocean Blue (Lent)'
Arthur Streeton: Form and Colour, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, 2 August 1938, no. 9, 'Ocean Blue', (NFS)

LITERATURE
Art in Australia, Sydney, October 1931, plate 4
Arthur Streeton, The Arthur Streeton Catalogue, Arthur Streeton, Melbourne, 1935, no. 718 (illustrated)
The Argus, Melbourne, 2 August 1938, p. 4

 

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