ARTHUR STREETON
1867-1943

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF MARY, LADY DOWNER, ADELAIDE

ARTHUR STREETON

1867-1943
Point Piper (1907)

oil on wood panel
signed 'A STREETON' lower right
17.6 x 66.3 cm

• Lot Sold $140,000 (Hammer Price)
• $170,800 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer, Melbourne, acquired by October 1907
The Baldwin Spencer Collection of Australian Pictures and Works of Art, Fine Art Society, Melbourne, 19 May 1919, lot 33, 100 gns
Tom Elder Barr Smith and Mary Barr Smith, Adelaide, acquired from the above
Sir James and Lady Joanna Gosse, Adelaide, by descent from the above
Mary, Lady Downer, Adelaide, by descent from the above

Exhibited

Streeton's Sydney Sunlight Exhibition, Bernard's Gallery, Melbourne, 1-5 October 1907, no. 6
Baldwin Spencer Loan Collection, Prahran Town Hall, Melbourne, 30 December 1911 - 1912, no. 14
Sir W. Baldwin Spencer's Collection, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1 December 1916, no. 22, 'Point Piper, Sydney'
Arthur Streeton Memorial Exhibition, National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 9 November - 10 December 1944, no. 34, 'Point Piper, Sydney Harbour'

Literature

Mr. Streeton's Pictures', The Argus, Melbourne, 1 October 1907, p. 6
Arthur Streeton, The Arthur Streeton Catalogue, Arthur Streeton, Melbourne, 1935, no. 297