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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian + International Fine Art including significant works from The Collection of Joan and Peter Clemenger & The Krongold Collection
• Sale Date:
  16 Aug 2023 ~ 7pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  58
• Lot Description:
  Joy Hester
  (1920 - 1960)
  Street Scene II, c.1941
  pen, ink and pencil on paper
  20.0 x 24.5 cm (sheet)
  signed with estate stamp upper left: Joy Hester
  Related Work: Two Girls in the Street , c.1941, ink and pen and watercolour, 28.4 x 38.8 cm, in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
• Provenance:
  The Estate of Sweeney Reed, Melbourne Peter Nahum, London Sotheby's, Melbourne, 27 September 1992, lot 212 Private collection, Melbourne
• References:
  Burke, J., Joy Hester , Greenhouse, Melbourne, 1983, p. 53
• Notes:
  'Hester did a series of street scenes in the early Forties that have striking compositional similarities: usually of two women standing together in the street. She shared this interest in urban subjects with a number of her contemporaries - Albert Tucker, Sidney Nolan, Noel Counihan and Harry de Hartog. These artists had been influenced, in turn, by the Russian painter Danila Vassilieff and the Viennese-born Jewish artist Yosl Bergner. Both had arrived in Melbourne in 1937.' Excerpt from Burke, J., Joy Hester , National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1981, p. 22
• Estimate:
  A$15,000 - 20,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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