PORTRAIT OF JEAN SHAW, 1918

100 Highlights from the Cbus Collection of Australian Art
Melbourne
27 July 2022
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JANET CUMBRAE STEWART

(1883 - 1960)
PORTRAIT OF JEAN SHAW, 1918

pastel on paper

55.0 x 37.5 cm (sight)

signed and dated lower right: Cumbrae Stewart / 18

Estimate: 
$8,000 – $12,000
Sold for $14,727 (inc. BP) in Auction 70 - 27 July 2022, Melbourne
Provenance

Commissioned by the sitter’s husband, Gayfield Shaw, Sydney 
Gayfield Shaw Art Salon, Sydney
Christie’s, Melbourne, 30 July 1990, lot 60
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 1 August 1990

Exhibited

The Bus Collection of Australian Art, Wollongong City Gallery, New South Wales, 16 March – 12 April 1992, cat. 11
Figurative Works from the Cbus Collection, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 4 August – 2 December 2012
on long term loan to Geelong 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. 18, 42 (illus.), 216