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• Auction House:
  Davidson Auctions
• Sale Name:
  Australian & International Art
• Sale Date:
  04 Dec 2016 ~ 12noon
• Lot #:
  326
• Lot Description:
  Cloud in the Valley
  Silver Gelatin Photograph
  19 x 25cm
• Artist:
  Harry Phillips ~ (1873-1944)
• Provenance:
  Harry Phillips's daughter, thence Phillip Kay (author of "The Far-Famed Blue Mountains of Harry Phillips", Leura 1985), thence present owner.
• Notes:
  Harry Phillips set up a photographic business in Katoomba in 1909 & produced many Blue Mountains View books. Similar to his friend, Frank Hurley, he had an obsession with clouds & published his now rare & idiosyncratic book "Clouds" in 1914. This image was incl. in that book. On his death in 1944 all his negatives were sold to the postcard publisher Murray Views who dumped them in the 1970s. Very few photographs remain.
• Estimate:
  A$400 - 600
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Photography

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