BURNING OFF, c.1894

Two Important Private Collections: Modern / Traditional
Melbourne
8 December 2021
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WALTER WITHERS

(1854 - 1914)
BURNING OFF, c.1894

oil on canvas

30.5 x 51.0 cm

signed lower left: W Withers.

Estimate: 
$20,000 – $30,000
Sold for $20,864 (inc. BP) in Auction 66 - 8 December 2021, Melbourne
Provenance

Sir Baldwin Spencer, Melbourne (label attached verso)
Arthur Tuckett and Son in collaboration with Fine Arts Society Gallery, Melbourne, 19 December 1919, lot 65
Mrs J. S Teulon, Melbourne
Mrs Lambert Latham, Sorrento
Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne
Private collection, Adelaide, acquired from the above 12 June 1978
Thence by descent
Private collection, Adelaide

Exhibited

Possibly: Annual Exhibition of the Victorian Artists' Society, Victorian Artists’ Society, Melbourne, October 1894, cat. 80
Sir W. Baldwin Spencer's Collection, National Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1 December 1916 - 1917 (label attached verso)
The Baldwin Spencer Collection Exhibition, Fine Arts Society Gallery, Melbourne, May 1919, cat. 58

Literature

Possibly: ‘Exhibition of Pictures’, The Age, 25 October 1894, p. 6