WARATAH, c.1925

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
2 May 2012
61

GRACE COSSINGTON SMITH

(1892 - 1984)
WARATAH, c.1925

gouache over pencil and ink on grey paper

20.5 x 18.5 cm

signed lower right: G Cossington Smith

Estimate: 
$10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $31,200 (inc. BP) in Auction 25 - 2 May 2012, Sydney
Provenance

Private collection, Melbourne
Painters Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney
Private collection, United Kingdom

Exhibited

Australian Women Artists, Bridget McDonnell Gallery, Melbourne, September – October 1986 (label attached verso)
Grace Cossington Smith 1892–1984: Survey Exhibition 1919–1971, Painters Gallery, Sydney, 8–26 September 1987; Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, 7–24 October 1987, cat. 4, illus in exhibition catalogue, unpaginated, fig. 2 (labels attached verso)

Literature

Phipps, J., Artists Gardens, Bay Books, Sydney, 1986, p. 130 (illus.)