AUTUMN, c.1904

Important Australian and International Fine Art
Sydney
20 September 2017
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DAVID DAVIES

(1864 – 1939)
AUTUMN, c.1904

oil on canvas

39.5 x 23.5 cm

signed lower left: DAVIES.

Estimate: 
$15,000 – 20,000
Sold for $25,620 (inc. BP) in Auction 51 - 20 September 2017, Sydney
Provenance

Davies Family Collection, United Kingdom
Adrian Mibus, London
Phillip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
Private collection, Perth

Exhibited

Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1904, cat. 672
Aspects of European Art … 1900, Whitford and Hughes (London), Queen’s Gallery, Woollahra, August – September 1981, cat. 22 (as ‘Wooded Landscape’)
David Davies Retrospective, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria, 11 September – 11 November 1984; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 4 December 1984 – 6 January 1985; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1 February – 10 March 1985, cat. 32 (label attached verso)

Literature

Cowden, A., David Davies: The Expatriate Period, Anthony Cowden, London, 1978 (unpaginated)
Sparks, C., David Davis 1864 – 1939, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria, 1984, cat. 32, p. 48 (illus.)
Graves, A., The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and their Work, from its Foundation in 1769 to 1904, Kingsmead Reprints and Hilmarton Manor Press, vol. I, London, 1989, p. 256