A 130-year-old painting, hidden from view for literally decades, catapulted out of the woodwork to score the highest bid at Smith & Singer’s first major Australian art auction of the year., 1894, fetched a hammer price of $1.5 million after auctioneer Martin Gallon started the bidding at a cool $1 million.
The picture’s subject is Curlew Camp, a fabled artists’ colony set up on the shores of Sirius Cove, a beautiful Sydney Harbour inlet at Mosman. Streeton joined fellow artist Tom Roberts at Curlew Camp, where a roster of artists lived and worked, played cricket on the sand, and painted masterpiece after masterpiece.
Campbell’s work depicts Stella James House, also known as Burley Griffin Lodge, designed by Walter Burley Griffin and built between 1933 and 1934. The house is owned by the National Trust of Australia ., 1978, which sold last year for $1,156,250 – the Australian auction record for a sculpture.
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