Jug and Three Pears c1928

GRACE COSSINGTON SMITH (1892-1984)

Jug and Three Pears c1928

oil on board
29.5 x 25.5 cm; 51.0 x 47.5 cm (framed)
signed lower right: G Cossington Smith
bears inscription verso: Bought 1941/42/ Macquarie Galleries/ Bligh St. Sydney

Provenance:
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 1942
Private collection
Geoff K. Gray, Sydney, 18 June 1984, lot 80 (as Still Life)
Private collection, Brisbane

Exhibited:
(possibly) Grace Cossington Smith, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 23 July - 4 August 1928, cat.25 (as Simple Things 1928)
(possibly) Exhibition of Paintings by Enid Cambridge and Grace Cossington Smith, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 22 July - 3 August 1942
On long-term loan to the Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, until 2008

We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Geoffrey Smith with cataloguing this work.

Estimate: $30000 - 50000

Result Hammer: $38000

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