Lot 3

Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1943
Thence by descent
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 21 September 2001, lot 200
Private collection, Western Australia

Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Arthur Streeton: Landscapes and Flowers, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, June 1935, cat. no. 18 (as "Madonnas in a Garden")
Exhibition of Paintings by Sir Arthur Streeton, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, 11 - 23 January 1943, cat. no. 33 (as "Olive Trees and Lillies")

Arthur Streeton and his Magic Brush, The Herald, Melbourne, 10 June 1935, p. 8
Arthur Streeton Great Painter of Australia, Brilliant Flower Pieces, The Argus, Melbourne, 11 June 1935, p. 7

"...The certainty with which Streeton sets down brush strokes, full brisk, correct in tone and colour, is amazing. The whole show at the Athenaeum Gallery is an object lesson to students and to painter's illusions of light are finely painted particularly in no. 7 "Lilies and Bells", and in no. 18, "Madonnas in a Garden". Both are studies of Christmas lilies painted out of doors growing in a flower bed."

RELATED WORK:
Arthur Streeton, Olinda 1935, oil on canvas, 64.2 x 102cm, Private collection, Smith, G., Arthur Streeton 1867-1943, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, p. 182-83, cat. no. 78 (illus.)