Lot 85
A Street in Bruges, Belgium
oil on canvasboard
signed lower right: WILL ASHTON
titled verso
30.5 x 42cm
Estimate $3,000 - $5,000
Estate of late Sidney Orme McPherson
E.J. Ainger, Melbourne 7 August 2016, lot 312
Mr Alush Abazi Collection, Melbourne
(Possibly) Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Will Ashton Painted on his Recent Tour in Europe, Fine Arts Society, Melbourne 1925
Art of Will Ashton, The Sydney Morning Herald, N.S.W., 18 March 1925, p. 10
(probably) Lionel Lindsay, 'Catalogue of an Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Will Ashton Painted on his Recent Tour in Europe, Fine Arts Society, Melbourne, 1925, as 'The Church at Damme [Bruges], Belgium' cat no 22
'It Is a pleasure to turn to the northern atmosphere of Bruges and Paris. "A Street in Bruges," apparently one side of a square in that ancient Flemish city, reproduces the spirit of old-time peace with the red roofs and cool green foliage of the district...'
Art of Will Ashton, The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 March 1925, p. 10
Fine Art
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8298
6:30pm - 4 June 2019
333 Malvern Rd, South Yarra 3141
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