The Ballarat Dump, St Gratien 1918

ARTHUR STREETON (1867-1943)

The Ballarat Dump, St Gratien 1918

oil on canvas
62.0 x 100.0 cm

signed lower right: A STREETON

Provenance:

The artist

Gift from the artist to the Naval & Military Club, Melbourne (label attached verso)

Deutscher + Hackett, The Naval & Military Club Collection of Fine Art, Melbourne, 21 July 2009, lot 7

Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:

Exhibition: War and Peace, Royal British Colonial Society of Artists in association with the Society of Australian Artists, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1918, cat.124 (as Camouflaged Road 'Dump', label attached verso)

With the Australians on the Somme: Pictures by Lt. Arthur Streeton, Alpine Club Gallery, London, June 1919, cat.23 (as Camouflaged Road and Dump, St. Gratien)

Exhibition of Mr. Streeton's Pictures, Victorian Artists' Society Galleries, Melbourne, March 1920, cat.41 (as Ballarat Dump)

Final Exhibition of Arthur Streeton's Pictures, Education Department Gallery, Sydney, May 1920, cat.38 (as Ballarat Dump)

Exhibition of Paintings by Arthur Streeton, South Australian Society of Fine Arts, Adelaide, July 1921, cat.12

An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Arthur Streeton, The Fine Arts Gallery, Melbourne, July 1926, cat.7

Reference:

'A Genius of the Brush: Mr. Arthur Streeton's Exhibition,' The Register, Adelaide, 16 July 1921, p.5

'Mr. Streeton's Pictures,' The Advertiser, Adelaide, p.13

Streeton, A., The Arthur Streeton Catalogue, Arthur Streeton, Melbourne, 1935, no.603

Gray, A., Vaughan, G. & Kindred, E., Arthur Streeton: The Art of War, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2018, pp.25, 51, 52, 53, 61

Related Works:

The Ballarat Dump, St Gratien 1918, watercolour on paper, 36.0 x 54.0 cm; sold Deutscher + Hackett, Melbourne, 29 August 2012, lot 67

Corps Reserve Ammunition Dump 1918, watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper, 37.5 x 55.5 cm, Australian War Memorial collection, Canberra

Estimate: $160000 - 240000

Result Hammer: $220000