ARTHUR STREETON (1867-1943)
A Summer Field c1905
oil on canvas on board
29.0 x 44.0 cm
signed with initials lower right: AS
bears inscription verso: Dated by/ Oliver Streeton/ Early 1900s
SOLD for $60,000.00 (all-inclusive)
Description
ARTHUR STREETON (1867-1943)
A Summer Field c1905
oil on canvas on board
29.0 x 44.0 cm
signed with initials lower right: AS
bears inscription verso: Dated by/ Oliver Streeton/ Early 1900s
Provenance:
Mr John Bryan, Melbourne (inscribed verso)
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 12 April 1989, lot 1330
Private collection
Sotheby's, Sydney, 24 November 1991, lot 356
Private collection, Melbourne
Art Index, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney
SOLD for $60,000.00 (all-inclusive)
Menzies is delighted to present A Summer Field c1905 by Sir Arthur Streeton for private sale.
A classic Impressionistic composition, A Summer Field invites comparison with one of the artist’s most famous paintings, Golden Summer, Eaglemont 1889, in demonstrating Streeton’s lifelong affinity with the subject of the landscape in summer.
Painted following Streeton’s arrival in London in 1897, the picture is redolent of harvest, fruitfulness and debilitating heat, whilst containing the subtle suggestion of a poet’s effortless languor.
Specialists
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