FENCE AND DRY HILL, 1930

oil on board

29.0 x 32.5 cm

signed and dated lower left: G Cossington Smith 30
signed and inscribed with title verso: Fence and Dry Hill / Grace Cossington Smith
signed and inscribed with title on artist's handwritten label verso: Fence and Dry Hill / Grace Cossington Smith

Estimate:
$20,000 - $30,000

Sold:
$61,364 (inc. BP)

Lot 51

Grace Cossington-Smith

FENCE AND DRY HILL

, 1930

lot details

Grace Cossington-Smith (1892 - 1984)
FENCE AND DRY HILL, 1930
oil on board
29.0 x 32.5 cm
signed and dated lower left: G Cossington Smith 30
signed and inscribed with title verso: Fence and Dry Hill / Grace Cossington Smith
signed and inscribed with title on artist's handwritten label verso: Fence and Dry Hill / Grace Cossington Smith
Provenance

Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
Mrs H. R. Thomas
Daniel Thomas, Sydney and Tasmania
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne (label attached verso)
Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1999

Exhibited

Grace Cossington Smith, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 18 February – 2 March 1970, cat. 24 (label attached verso)
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 10 – 24 September 1981, cat. 124 (dated 1920)
Annual Collectors’ Exhibition 1999, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 5 June – 3 July 1999, cat. 42 (illus. in exhibition catalogue p. 34, dated c.1938)

Related Works

Drought at Moss Vale, c.1938, oil on pulpboard, 41.5 x 49.0 cm, illus. in Thomas, D., Grace Cossington Smith, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1973, cat. 46