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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Fine Australian & International Art
• Sale Date:
  29 Aug 2016 ~ 6.30pm - Part 1 (Lots 1 - 78)
  30 Aug 2016 ~ 2.30pm - Part 2 (Lots 79 - 328)
• Lot #:
  8
• Lot Description:
  Hans Heysen
  (1877-1968)
  (Spring Flowers) 1925
  oil on canvas
  61.5 x 51 cm
  signed and dated lower left: HANS HEYSEN 1925
• Provenance:
  Mr and Mrs Henry Dutton, South Australia; Private collection; Australian, International and Contemporary Paintings, Christie's, Melbourne, 6 May 2003, lot no. 23, (illustrated) (as Flower Piece); Deutscher~Menzies, Australian and International Fine Art, Sydney, 05/12/2007, lot no. 55; Private collection, Queensland
• Exhibited:
  The Society of Artists Exhibition, Dunster Galleries, Adelaide, 4-20 November 1925, no. 114, 150 gns ; Royal Visit 1954: An Exhibition of Australian Paintings, National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1954 (label verso)
• References:
  Ure Smith, Art in Australia, Sydney, March 1926, unpaginated (illustrated), (as Spring Flowers - Still Life)
• Notes:
  In 1920, a few years before the present work was executed, Sydney Ure Smith, Bertram Stevens and C. Lloyd Jones edited The Art of Hans Heysen. In it, Lionel Lindsay, expressed his views on Heysen's still life paintings, considering him an 'admirable painter of flowers. I think he might have painted them [even] if he had never seen Fantin Latour's work, but I am sure that Fantin made him a master. The French artist had never been beaten in his own rare branch of art. With the utmost simplicity and with the most admirable method he sets in front of you a bunch of flowers that have the beauty of nature and charm of art. He does not over-arrange them. His lucid spirit is content to perceive their native beauty and character, and his admirable eye to define colour value and form... one of [Heysen's] little daughters... has the gift of selection. She picks and discards what will not make a natural and harmonious bunch, and it is such a bunch that he sets himself to realise in all its freshness and beauty...[He] is one of the few painters who have really won the mastery of flower painting.' 1 1 Lionel Lindsay, The Art of Hans Heysen, Arthur McQuilty & Co., Sydbey, 1920, p. 18-19
• Estimate:
  A$30,000 - 40,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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