A Veil of Bushfire Smoke 1918

ALFRED COFFEY (1869-1950)

A Veil of Bushfire Smoke 1918

oil on canvas
102.0 x 152.0 cm; 137.5 x 188.5 cm (framed)
signed lower right: ALFRED COFFEY

Provenance:
Trevor Bussell Fine Art Gallery, Sydney, 1986
Private collection, Queensland
Menzies, Melbourne, 10 August 2017, lot 8
Private collection, Melbourne

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, 1918, cat.336
McCulloch, A., Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Hutchinson Group, Melbourne, 1984, 2nd edition, p.212 (illus., as A Tail of Bushfire Smoke)
McCulloch, A., The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Aus Art Editions in association with The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2006, 4th edition, p.330 (as A Tail of Bushfire Smoke)

Estimate: $20000 - 30000

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