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• Auction House:
  Smith & Singer
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  24 Aug 2022 ~ 6.30pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  34
• Lot Description:
  Arthur Streeton
  (1867-1943)
  A Kentish Pastoral (1904)
  oil on wood panel
  18.5 x 24 cm
  signed 'A STREETON' lower right
  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'
• 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
• Notes:
  REFERENCES: 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
• Estimate:
  A$55,000 - 75,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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