ARTHUR STREETON
1867-1943

PROPERTY FORMERLY FROM THE SIR WALTER BALDWIN SPENCER COLLECTION, MELBOURNE

ARTHUR STREETON

1867-1943
A Kentish Pastoral (1904)

oil on wood panel
signed ‘A S’ lower left; signed 'A STREETON' lower right
18.5 x 24 cm

• Lot Sold $60,000 (Hammer Price)
• $73,636 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Arthur Streeton, London
Sir Water Baldwin Spencer, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1907
Lady Spencer, Melbourne, by descent from the above
Mrs Aileen Rowan, Victoria, by descent from the above
Mr Richard Rowan, Victoria, by descent from the above
Private Collection, New South Wales, by descent from the above
Australian & International Fine Art & Sculpture, Menzies, Sydney, 28 March 2019, lot 14, 'Kent Harvest', illustrated
Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above

Exhibited

An Exhibition of Pictures by Arthur Streeton Prior to his Return to Europe, Upper Hibernian Hall, Melbourne, 20-27 April 1907, no. 36, illustrated, £15.15.0
Baldwin Spencer Loan Collection, Prahran Town Hall, Melbourne, 20 December 1911 - 1912, no. 15, 'Sussex Idyll'
Sir W. Baldwin Spencer's Collection, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1 December 1916, no. 12, 'Sussex Idyll'
Loan Exhibition of Australian Paintings, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 9 July - 29 August 1925, no. 32, 'Kent Harvest' (label verso)
Heidelberg Art Exhibition, Ivanhoe Hall, Melbourne, 16 November 1934, no. 36, 'The Haystack'

Literature

Sydney Ure Smith, Bertram Stevens and Charles Lloyd Jones (eds), Art in Australia, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, vol. 1, no. 2, 1917, (p. 21) (illustrated), 'Kent Harvest'
Charles Lloyd Jones, Bertram Stevens and Sydney Ure Smith (eds), The Art of Arthur Streeton, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1919, plate XXXV, 'Kent Harvest'
Ann Galbally, Arthur Streeton, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1969, no. 103, 'Kent Harvest c. 1909'
Mary Eagle, The Oil Paintings of Arthur Streeton in the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1994, p. 145