ARTHUR STREETON
1867-1943

PROPERTY FORMERLY FROM THE COLLECTION OF SIR REGINALD MARCUS CLARK, SYDNEY

ARTHUR STREETON

1867-1943
8th August. The Australian Advance Viewed from an Elevation just North of Corbie, the Ridge in Centre runs from Villers-Bretonneux on right edge of picture to Hamel on left 1918

oil on canvas
signed and dated 'ARTHUR STREETON / 1918' lower right
63.3 x 101.2 cm
frame: original, maker unknown

• Lot Sold $260,000 (Hammer Price)
• $317,200 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Mr Arthur Streeton, Melbourne
Sir Reginald Marcus Clark, Sydney, acquired from the above in 1920
A Most Important Collection of Australian Paintings, Drawings and Prints under instructions from and as directed by The Executors of the Will of the Late Sir Reginald Marcus Clark, K.B.E. and Lady Clark, James R. Lawson, Sydney, 15 June 1954, lot 39
Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above
Private Collection, Sydney, by descent from the above
Important Australian Art, Sotheby's Australia, Sydney, 31 August 2010, lot 25, illustrated
Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above

Exhibited

With the Australians on the Somme: Pictures by Lt. Arthur Streeton, Alpine Club Gallery, London, – 30 June 1919, no. 2
Mr Streeton's Pictures, Victorian Artists' Society Galleries, Melbourne, 16 March 1920, no. 29
Final Exhibition of Arthur Streeton's Pictures, Education Department Gallery, Sydney, 10 May 1920, no. 12
Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Water Colors from the Collection of Mr R.M. Clark, Marcus Clark Showrooms, Sydney, 6 August 1923, no. 2
R.M. Clark Exhibition of Pictures, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, June – September 1926, no. 2, illustrated
Loan Exhibition of the Works of Arthur Streeton, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 November 1931 – 20 January 1932, no. 128

Literature

Arthur Streeton, The Arthur Streeton Catalogue, Arthur Streeton, Melbourne, 1935, no. 592