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:
$20,864 (inc. BP)
lot details
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