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
Menzies, Sydney, 25 March 2010, lot 63
Property of an investment syndicate

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)

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

Estimate: $120000 - 150000

Result Hammer: $110000