INGRAMS GREEN, SUSSEX, 1949

100 Highlights from the Cbus Collection of Australian Art
Melbourne
27 July 2022
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GRACE COSSINGTON SMITH

(1892 - 1984)
INGRAMS GREEN, SUSSEX, 1949

oil on canvas on board

33.0 x 41.0 cm

signed and dated lower left: G. Cossington Smith. 49.
bears inscription with title verso: No. 5351 ‘SUSSEX’/ NO 3/ INGRAMS GREEN

Estimate: 
$20,000 – $30,000
Sold for $27,000 (inc. BP) in Auction 70 - 27 July 2022, Melbourne
Provenance

Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney
Christie’s, Melbourne, 2 – 3 May 2002, lot 47 (as ‘Sussex Landscape, 1947’) 
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above

Exhibited

Grace Cossington-Smith, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 18 – 30 July 1951, cat. 29 (as ‘Autumn at Ingram’s [sic.] Green’)
Probably: Grace Cossington-Smith, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 21 June – 10 July 1972, cat. 28 
on long term loan to Newcastle Art Gallery, New South Wales, prior to 2006
on long term loan to Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria

Literature

Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 67 (illus.), 232