Painting by influential Australian impressionist, unseen for more than a century, has been unveiled ahead of auction where it is expected to fetch up to $1.5m
Sunlight at the Camp by Arthur Streeton. The oil painting has been in private hands for 130 years and will be auctioned later this month in Sydney.Sunlight at the Camp by Arthur Streeton. The oil painting has been in private hands for 130 years and will be auctioned later this month in Sydney.The oil painting Sunlight at the Camp, painted in 1894, has gone on show in Melbourne before its auction in Sydney, where it is expected to fetch up to $1.5m.
It was the golden age of Australian impressionism, a time when the most creative visual artists in Australia worked side by side to record the landscape they were immersed in, said Smith, painting directly from nature in a way that would change the course of Australian art.Geoffrey Smith, chairman of Smith and Singer auction house, with Streeton’s 1894 painting. It will be on display at their Melbourne and Sydney premises before being auctioned on 17 April in Sydney.
The painting was last exhibited in 1894 and was owned by art collector, the late Ruth Simon, for decades, with most of her collection going to the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. Sunlight at the Camp will go under the hammer as part of an auction of Australian art by Smith and Singer, formerly Sotheby’s Australia, in Sydney on 17 April.
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