Fossil Bay, Mentone 1925

ARTHUR STREETON (1867-1943)

Fossil Bay, Mentone 1925

oil on panel
28.5 x 75.5 cm
signed and dated lower right: A. STREETON/ 1925

Provenance:
Mr H. S. Read, Sydney, 1930s
Private collection
Mr David Bremer, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne
Company collection, Sydney
Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:
Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Arthur Streeton, Landscape with variations, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 10-26 March 1927, cat.25, (as 'Fossil Bay-Flood Tide')
Loan Exhibition of the Works of Arthur Streeton, National Gallery of New South Wales, 20 November 1931-20 January 1932, cat.136
Selected Australian Works of Art, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 26 June-10 July 1985 (illus. exhibition catalogue p.11)
Annual Collectors Exhibition 1999, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 6 June - 3 July 1999, cat.26 (illus. exhibition catalogue p.26)

Reference:
Streeton, A., The Arthur Streeton Catalogue, Melbourne, 1935, cat.892 (as 'Fossil bay' dated 1926)

Estimate: $170000 - 220000

Result Hammer: $170000