A Veil of Bushfire Smoke 1918

Alfred Coffey (1869-1950)

A Veil of Bushfire Smoke 1918

oil on canvas
100.0 x 152.0 cm

signed lower right: ALFRED COFFEY

Provenance:

Trevor Bussell Fine Art Gallery, Sydney

Private collection, Queensland, since 1986

Exhibited:

Loan Exhibition of Australian Art, April 1918, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 4 April - 8 July 1918, cat.336 (label attached verso)

Fine Australian Paintings, Trevor Bussell Fine Art Gallery, Sydney, 18 June - 20 July 1986, cat.45

Reference:

Mann, G. V. F., Loan Exhibition of Australian Art, April 1918: a collection of paintings and drawings by Australian artists executed over the past 25 to 30 years, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, April 1918, cat.336

McCulloch, A., Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Hutchinson Group, Melbourne, 1984, p.212 (illus; incorrectly titled A Tail of Bushfire Smoke)

McCulloch, A., The New Encyclopedia of Australian Art, AUS Art Editions/The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2006, p.330

Estimate: $12000 - 18000

Result Hammer: $22000