Grace Cossington Smith (1892-1984)
Jug with Fruit in the Window 1960
Estimate: $300000 - 400000
Sold For:
$520000 hammer
Description
Grace Cossington Smith (1892-1984)
Jug with Fruit in the Window 1960
oil on board
90.0 x 73.5 cm
signed and dated lower left:
G. Cossington Smith 60.
inscribed verso:
To Macquarie Galleries 19 BLIGH STREET
Provenance:
(probably) Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, c1979
Private collection, Melbourne
Exhibited:
Spring Exhibition, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 17 - 30 October 1979, cat.111 (illus. exhibition catalogue)
Grace Cossington Smith: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 4 March - 13 June 2005; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 29 July - 9 October 2005; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 October 2005 - 15 January 2006; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 11 February - 30 April 2006 (label attached verso)
Reference:
James, B., Grace Cossington Smith, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990, pp.47, 48, 165, 171 (illus. p.47, pl.107, dated c1962)
Hart, D. (ed.), Grace Cossington Smith: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2005, pp.90, 181 (illus. p.89)
Estimate: $300000 - 400000
Result Hammer: $520000