Lot 25

The Collection of Mrs S J Bannon
GFL Fine Art, Perth, 25 May 1999, lot 80
Private collection, Western Australia
GFL Fine Art, Perth, 28 November 2000, lot 38
Private collection, Western Australia

RELATED WORK
The Coming Home 1904, oil on canvas, 106.4 x 184.5cm, the Collection of Art Gallery New South Wales, Sydney (acquired in 1904)

'Hans Heysen's choice of subject in 'The Coming Home' reflects his love and reverence for nature and rural life. He took inspiration from the landscape and labours of local farmers near his home in Adelaide and, later, Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills. Suffused with golden light, this gentle image of cattle being herded evokes a European pastoral ideal. Made soon after his studies in Paris at the turn of the century, it reveals the influence of the work of John Constable and the painters of the French Barbizon school, whom Heysen particularly admired.' (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney)

This work is a study for the major oil painting 'The Coming Home' 1904 that is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney collection and was acquired in 1904. The major work was purchased by the Trustees from the Annual Exhibition of the Royal Art Society of New South Wales, where it was listed as catalogue number 80 and priced at 150 guineas.

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