Arthur Streeton 1867-1943

• Lot Sold $70,000 (Hammer Price)
• $84,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

MELBOURNE, FROM SASSAFRASS (1921)
oil on canvas
signed ‘A. STREETON’ lower right
62.5 X 101CM 

PROVENANCE

Mr Norman Bayles, Melbourne
Paintings, Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 2 November 1983, lot 40, ‘Rain Burst over the Dandenongs’, illustrated
Company Collection, Perth

EXHIBITED

Arthur Streeton, Victorian Artists’ Society Galleries, Melbourne, 5-6 July 1921, ‘Melbourne from Sassafras’
Recent Australian Landscape by Arthur Streeton, Education Department’s Gallery, Sydney, 21-28 November 1921, no. 2, ‘Melbourne, from Sassafras’, (250 gns)

LITERATURE

The Age, Melbourne, 6 July 1921, p. 11
The Argus, Melbourne, 6 July 1921, p. 13
The Herald, Melbourne, 6 July 1921, p. 9
The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 22 November 1921, p. 11
Arthur Streeton, The Arthur Streeton Catalogue, Arthur Streeton, Melbourne, 1935, no. 731, ‘Melbourne, from Sassafras’