Alan Sumner
(1911 - 1994)
SIDE STREET TOORAK, c.1944
screenprint
35.0 x 43.0 cm
signed and titled below image
Estimate:
$2,000 - $3,000
Sold:
$3,840 (inc. BP)
lot details
Alan Sumner (1911 - 1994)
SIDE STREET TOORAK, c.1944
screenprint
35.0 x 43.0 cm
signed and titled below image
Provenance
Eastgate Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne
This is possibly the first colour screenprint produced in Australia. The subject depicts Clendon Road houses at the back of St John's Anglican Church, Toorak.
Exhibited
Alan Sumner, The Complete Screenprint Collection 1944–48, Eastgate Gallery, Melbourne, 17 October – 14 November 1993, cat. 1 (illus.)
Literature
Butler, R., Alan Sumner Screenprints, Eastgate Gallery, Melbourne, 1993, p. 19 (illus.)