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• Auction House:
  Smith & Singer
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  23 Aug 2023 ~ 6.30pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  36
• Lot Description:
  Arthur Streeton
  (1867-1943)
  Evening Game 1889
  oil on cardboard
  13.3 x 23.3 cm
  inscribed 'EvEning Game' lower left; signed and dated 'StreEten 89' lower right
  EXHIBITED: "The 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition", Buxton's Art Gallery, Melbourne, 17 August 1889, no. 145, 2 gns; "Moonrise", Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, 30 November 1973 - 21 January 1974, no. 41 (label verso); "Arthur Streeton 1867-1943", National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 8 December 1995 - 12 February 1996; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1 March - 14 April 1996; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 2 May - 16 June 1996; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 9 July - 25 August 1996; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 October - 24 November 1996, no. 17, illustrated (label verso); "Australian Impressionism", National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 31 March - 8 July 2007, no. 9.52, illustrated; "Streeton", Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 7 November 2020 - 14 February 2021, illustrated; "She-Oak and Sunlight: Australian Impressionism", The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square, 2 April - 22 August 2021
• Provenance:
  Arthur Streeton, Melbourne; Professor Henry Laurie and Mrs Frances Laurie, Melbourne, acquired from the above in August 1889; A Fine Collection of Australian, English and European Paintings, Decoration Co., Melbourne, 18 November 1953, lot 107, 'Looking Towards Melbourne from the Yarra, 1881'; Private Collection, Melbourne; Private Collection, Sydney, by descent from the above
• Notes:
  REFERENCES: Art and Artists', "Table Talk", Melbourne, 23 August 1889, p. 4; Ann Galbally, "Arthur Streeton", Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1969, cat. no. 31, p. 92; Geoffrey Smith, "Arthur Streeton 1867-1943", National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 48, 49 (illustrated); Terence Lane, "Australian Impressionism", National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2007, pp. 178 (illustrated), 334, 351; Wayne Tunnicliffe (ed.), "Streeton", Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2021, pp. 59 (illustrated), 368; Anne Gray and Angela Hesson (eds), "She-Oak and Sunlight: Australian Impressionism", National Gallery of Victoria in association with Thames & Hudson, Melbourne, 2021, p. 284
• Estimate:
  A$400,000 - 600,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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