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For further background on Bertram Mackennal, and results for his work from our March 2016 Auction please watch video...
The present watercolour by the itinerant artist, illustrator and printmaker, Edward Roper, was included in the exhibition Australian and New Zealand, American and Canadian Oil Paintings and Watercolour Drawings held at the Burlington Gallery in London in 1886. In the catalogue...
When Frederick McCubbin and his family moved to 42 Kensington Road South Yarra in the latter part of 1907, the rambling grounds and elevated position provided an abundance of subjects for his brush. It inspired a number of masterpieces of which Moonlight 1909, in the collection of the...
Sunday Morning from Cremorne of 1907, shows the wide vista of a peaceful coastal inlet, with a number of sail boats, being enjoyed by two female companions. The sparsely wooded and uncrowded landscape is bathed in the windless calm of the midday hazy glow of seaside light, whose bluish...
Norman Lindsay was a self-confessed devotee of the female nude in art, viewing the female image almost as a pathway to the divine. He is quoted as saying, ‘I have taken the feminine image as a dominant factor in my concept of life, both because I love the beauty of women, and because they are...
Arthur Streeton’s The Bay from Olinda Top, 1925, was first exhibited and purchased from the Fine Art Galleries, Melbourne, in October 1925. It was one of a number of works from that exhibition singled out by contemporary critics for their perceived ‘freshness’ and the ‘arresting’ nature...
