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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  04 Apr 2023 ~ 6pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  42
• Lot Description:
  Percy Lindsay
  (1870-1952)
  Berry's Bay
  oil on cardboard
  32.0 x 24.0cm (12 5/8 x 9 7/16in).
  signed lower right: 'Percy Lindsay'
• Provenance:
  Mr Walter Taylor, Sydney; The D.R. Sheumack Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in 1955; Sotheby's, Melbourne, 25 August 1997, lot 150; Private collection, Sydney
• Exhibited:
  The D.R. Sheumack Collection of Australian Paintings, S.H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery, Sydney, 17 May - 12 June, 1983, cat. 78
• References:
  Robyn Christie and Justin Miller, The D.R. Sheumack Collection - Eighty Years of Australian Painting, Sotheby's, Australia, Sydney, 1988, cat. 26 (illus.)
• Notes:
  It is thought that this ship painted here by Percy Lindsay, is the six-masted American schooner called the 'Helen B. Stirling', skippered by a Dutchman, Captain Uister Huise. It was an American trading ship and was in Sydney Harbour from about 1930 - 1931 onwards where it rested at Berry's Bay. The company which owned the ship crashed during the depression and the Helen B. Stirling waited for several years to hear of her fate. She was eventually scuttled, having been considered unseaworthy after he long wait in Berry's Bay.
• Estimate:
  A$5,000 - 7,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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