The Laundry Boat on the River Seine, Paris

BESSIE DAVIDSON (1879-1965)

The Laundry Boat on the River Seine, Paris

oil on canvas-board
20.0 x 22.5 cm; 32.0 x 35.0 cm (framed)
signed with initials lower left: BD

Provenance:
The artist
Thence by descent, the artist's great grand-nephew, Adelaide
Elder Fine Art, Adelaide, 26 October 2014, lot 9
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne (label attached verso, stock no.214127)
Private collection, New South Wales

Exhibited:
Australian Women Artists: Between the Wars, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 3 March - 25 April 2015 (illus. exhibition catalogue)
2017 Collectors' Exhibition, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 3 June - 29 July 2017 (illus. exhibition catalogue, p.13)
Bessie Davidson & Sally Smart: Two Artists and the Parisian Avant-garde, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 20 March 2020 [prematurely closed due to COVID-19]
Innovative Australian Women, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 25 March - 31 July 2020 (illus. exhibition catalogue)

Estimate: $12000 - 16000

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