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• Auction House:
  Sotheby's Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  08 May 2012 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  12
• Lot Description:
  Frederick McCubbin
  1855-1917
  Whisperings In Wattle Boughs 1886
  oil on canvas
  25.5 x 46.7 cm
  signed 'F. McCubbin / 1866' lower right
• Provenance:
  Professor Henry Laurie and Mrs Frances Laurie, Melbourne By descent Private Collection, Melbourne
• Exhibited:
  Buonarotti Club, Melbourne Coffee Palace, Melbourne, 14 August 1886 First Annual Exhibition of the Australian Artists' Association, Buxton's Art Gallery, Melbourne, 7-25 September 1886, no. 25, 'Whisperings in Wattle Boughs' The Artists' Camps: Plein-Air Painting in Melbourne 1885-1898, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, 7 June - 11 July 1984, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 2 August - 4 September 1984, no. 42, 'While the Billy Boils', illustrated Great Australian Paintings from Melbourne Priv
• References:
  'Exhibition of the Australian Artists' Association', The Argus, Melbourne, 7 September 1886, p. 7 'The Australian Artists' Winter Exhibition', The Daily Telegraph, Melbourne, 7 September 1886, p. 5 Leigh Astbury, The Heidelberg School and Rural Mythology, M.A. thesis, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 1982, pp. 192, 208, 'While the Billy Boils' Helen Topliss, The Artists' Camps: Plein-Air Painting in Melbourne 1885-1898, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, 1984, pp. 20, 54 (illustrate
• Estimate:
  A$1,000,000 - 1,200,000
• Realised Price:
  *****
  

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• Category:
  Art

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