Lot #6016 - Benjamin Edwin Minns
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Auction House:Theodore Bruce
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Sale Name:Art | International | Australian | Aboriginal | Including The Lucile Dahlstrom Fredrickson Collection of Hermannsburg School Paintings
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Sale Date:04 May 2020 ~ 6pm (AEST)
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Lot #:6016
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Lot Description:Benjamin Edwin Minns
(1864-1937)
On the Beach, Brittany (?) 1908
Watercolour
Signed & dated lower right
22.5 x 32.5 cm -
Notes:BE Minns & his wife Helen, left for the UK in 1885, where he worked & "sent back drawings to the Bulletin and contributed to St Paul's Magazine, Punch, the Strand Magazine, the Bystander and other journals. He steadily developed his watercolour painting, sketching in England and France, and exhibited successfully at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in London, and the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (New Salon) in Paris. They returned to Australia in 1915. Many of the works he brought with him were destroyed in a ship board fire." http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/minns-benjamin-edwin-7601
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Estimate:A$200 - 400
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Realised Price:
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Category:Art
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