Frederick McCubbin 1855-1917

• Lot Sold $1,000,000 (Hammer Price)
• $1,200,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

WHISPERINGS IN WATTLE BOUGHS 1886
oil on canvas
signed and dated ‘F. McCubbin / 1866’ lower right
25.5 X 46.7CM

PROVENANCE

Professor Henry Laurie and Mrs Frances Laurie, Melbourne
By descent
Private Collection, Melbourne

EXHIBITED

Buonarotti Club, Melbourne Coffee Palace, Melbourne, 14 August 1886
First Annual Exhibition of the Australian Artists’ Association, Buxton’s Art Gallery, Melbourne, 7-25 September 1886, no. 25, ‘Whisperings in Wattle Boughs’
The Artists’ Camps: Plein-Air Painting in Melbourne 1885-1898, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, 7 June – 11 July 1984, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 2 August – 4 September 1984, no. 42, ‘While the Billy Boils’, illustrated
Great Australian Paintings from Melbourne Private Collections, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 31 May – 15 June 1997, ‘While the Billy Boils’, illustrated
Australian Impressionism, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne,
3 March – 8 July 2007, no. 3.9, ‘While the Bill Boils’, illustrated

LITERATURE

‘Exhibition of the Australian Artists’ Association’, The Argus, Melbourne, 7 September 1886, p. 7
‘The Australian Artists’ Winter Exhibition’, The Daily Telegraph, Melbourne, 7 September 1886, p. 5
'Our Melbourne Ladies' Letter,' The Mercury, Hobart, 13 September 1886, p. 4
Leigh Astbury, The Heidelberg School and Rural Mythology, M.A. thesis, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 1982, pp. 192, 208, ‘While the Billy Boils’
Helen Topliss, The Artists’ Camps: Plein-Air Painting in Melbourne 1885-1898, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, 1984, pp. 20, 54 (illustrated), 76, ‘While the Billy Boils’
Leigh Astbury, City Bushmen: The Heidelberg School and the Rural Mythology, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985, p. 80, ‘While the Billy Boils’
Leigh Astbury, ‘Poetic Impulses in Australian Landscape Painting: The Heidelberg School Reconsidered’, Meridian, Melbourne, Vol. 4, No. 2, October 1985, p. 126, ‘Whisperings in Wattle Boughs’
Ann Galbally, Frederick McCubbin (2nd ed.), Hutchinson, Melbourne, 1985, p. 60 (illustrated), ‘While the Billy Boils’
Bridget Whitelaw, The Art of Frederick McCubbin, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1991, pp. 46, 47 (illustrated), 60, ‘While the Billy Boils’
Helen Topliss, The Artists’ Camps: Plein-Air Painting in Australia, Hedley Australia, 1992, pp. 54, 65, 68, 71 (illustrated), 191, ‘While the Billy Boils’
Leigh Astbury, ‘”Dressing Up”: Masquerade in the Heidelberg School’, Australian Cultural History, Geelong, Vol. 13, 1994, p. 134, ‘While the
Billy Boils’Terence Lane (ed.), Australian Impressionism, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2007, pp. 51, 52, 67 (illustrated), 317, 350, ‘While the Billy Boils’