BUILDING OF THE SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE, 1930

100 Highlights from the Cbus Collection of Australian Art
Melbourne
27 July 2022
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ARTHUR D'AUVERGNE BOXALL

(1895 - 1944)
BUILDING OF THE SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE, 1930

watercolour on paper on card

38.0 x 48.0 cm (sheet)

 

signed and dated lower left: D’AUVERGNE BOXALL/ JUNE. 1930

Estimate: 
$10,000 – $15,000
Sold for $46,636 (inc. BP) in Auction 70 - 27 July 2022, Melbourne
Provenance

Private collection
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 26 November 1990, lot 220
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, acquired from the above
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 28 November 1990

Exhibited

Five Decades of Australian Painting 1930 to 1980, Savill Galleries, Sydney, 5 May – 5 June 1989, cat. 10 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, as ‘Building the Bridge’) 
A New World, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 1 May – 30 August 2009
on long term loan to Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria

Literature

Queen Chats with Adelaide Artist’, The Mail, Adelaide, 31 May 1930, p. 3
Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 11, 17, 56 (illus.), 214, illus. front cover