Arthur Streeton (1867-1943), Coogee Bay 1907

• Lot Sold $625,000 (Hammer Price)
• $750,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

oil on canvas
signed and dated 'A. STREETON / 1907' lower right
50.6 X 75.9CM

Provenance:
Sir James R. McGregor, Sydney
Sir Charles Lloyd Jones, Sydney
Mr Charles Lloyd Jones, Sydney
Savill Galleries, Sydney
Company Collection, Western Australia

Exhibited:
Streeton's Sydney Sunlight Exhibition, Bernard's Gallery, Melbourne, 1-5 October 1907, no. 21, 60 gns
Arthur Streeton, Alpine Club Gallery, London, 26 March 1909, no. 42, ‘Coogee Bay, Australia', 50 gns
Loan Exhibition of the Works of Arthur Streeton, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, 20 November 1931 - 20 January 1932, no. 118, ‘Coogee'
Sydney Harbour Bridge Celebrations, Education Department's Art Gallery, Sydney, 21 March - 3 April 1932, no. 153, ‘Coogee'
Arthur Streeton Memorial Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 5 September - 7 October 1944, no. 4
Arthur Streeton Memorial Exhibition, National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 9 November - 10 December 1944, no. 30, ‘Coogee (1895)'
Arthur Streeton Memorial Exhibition, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 31 March - 20 May 1945, no. 46, ‘Coogee'
Paintings by Arthur Streeton: Arthur Boyd, The XXIX Venice Beinnale, Venice, 1958, no. 7, ‘Coogee'
Australian Painting: Colonial, Impressionist, Contemporary, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, March 1962, no. 62a, ‘Coogee'
Australian Painting: Colonial, Impressionist, Contemporary, Tate Gallery, London, 24 January - 3 March 1963, National Gallery of Art, Ottawa, April - May 1963, no. 58
Sir Arthur Streeton Exhibition, John Martin & Co. Limited, Adelaide, 6-23 March 1968, no. 16, ‘Coogee'
Art from the Collections of the Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, 14-29 October 1981, no. 28, ‘Coogee Beach'

Literature:
Charles Lloyd Jones, Sydney Ure Smith and Bertram Stevens, The Art of Arthur Streeton, Sydney, 1919, plate XIII; Art in Australia, Ure Smith, Sydney, November 1934, p. 42 (illustrated)
Arthur Streeton, The Arthur Streeton Catalogue, Arthur Streeton, Melbourne, 1935, no. 183; Ann Galbally, Arthur Streeton, Lansdowne, Melbourne, 1969, no. 130, illustrated
Ann Galbally and Anne Gray (eds), Letters from Smike: The Letters of Arthur Streeton 1890-1943, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1989, p. 109

 An essay on this work is included in the published catalogue of this sale.