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• Auction House:
  Leski Auctions
• Sale Name:
  Australian & Historical
• Sale Date:
  28 Nov 2020 ~ 11am (AEDT) - Session 1: Lots 1 - 617
  29 Nov 2020 ~ 11am (AEDT) - Session 2: Lots 618 - 1216
• Lot #:
  779
• Lot Description:
  Lance W. Driffield, also known as “Driff” (–1943) - A society lady in wide-brimmed hat
  extravagant fur coat, a walking cane in one hand, a small dog in the other,
  pen and ink and white highlights on board
  27 x 21cm
  signed “DRIFF ‘23” at centre right
• Notes:
  Driffield was active in the 1920s and ‘30s as a newspaper and magazine cartoonist and illustrator. He was a staff artist on Smith’s Weekly and a prolific contributor to the Bulletin. He was one of the 25 foundation members of the Society of Australian Black and White Artists in 1924, all of whom contributed to the Society’s first publication commemorating the visit of the US Fleet in 1925. According to Vane Lindesay (1994), ‘Driff’ became known throughout Australia in the early 1930s on the strength of one drawing, an advertising poster showing a fuming, bewhiskered cow-cocky carrying a double-barrelled shotgun and shouting, “Hey, who pinched my Smith’s Weekly ?” As a colour poster, this went up on almost every railway station in the Commonwealth.
• Estimate:
  A$100 - 200
• Realised Price:
  *****
  

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• Category:
  Affordable Art

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