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Important Australian and International Fine Art - 20 September 2017  |  Sydney

Lot 53
David Davies
(1864 – 1939)
AUTUMN, c.1904

oil on canvas

39.5 x 23.5 cm



Estimate:
$15,000 – 20,000


Lot sold: $25,620 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

David Davies
(1864 – 1939)
AUTUMN, c.1904

oil on canvas

39.5 x 23.5 cm

signed lower left: DAVIES.

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