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• Auction House:
  Davidson Auctions
• Sale Name:
  Australian & International Art
• Sale Date:
  05 Dec 2021 ~ 12noon (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  32
• Lot Description:
  Gordon Coutts
  (1875-1937)
  "Aunt Agatha", 1897
  Oil on Canvas
  75 x 55cm
  Provenance: Estate late Ivy Shore; thence by descent.
• Notes:
  This portrait, purchased in 1950, is from the collection of Portia-Geach Award-winning Sydney artist Ivy Shore. It was known as 'Aunt Agatha' when Ivy bought it, and has never had another name attached to it. However, Ivy Shore did a great deal of research on the work, and had a suspicion that it might be the only known portrait of Gordon Coutts' Australian artist wife Alice Gray COUTTS (1879-1973), whom he met in Paris. The Coutts spent several years in Melbourne, and then in Sydney in the 1890s, where Gordon became the senior instructor at the Art Society of New South Wales, before leaving Australia with Alice for the USA in the early 1900s, never to return. This portrait was painted in 1897, at the height of Coutts' style.
• Estimate:
  A$3,000 - 5,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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