Lot 16

In good condition. Light build-up of surface dirt throughout. Light scratches in uppre right. Surface abbrasion running vertically along left edge approx. 4cm and a second deeper abbrasion lower right corner 2cm.
Some scratches to frame.



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Private collection, Melbourne

In 1914 Christina was invited to exhibit with the National Society of Portrait Painters. Her rose studies were much admired by the patrons and she was asked by a gallery proprietor to stay in England and concentrate on painting roses. Christina declined the offer stating that landscapes were a part of her artistic life.
Of her landscapes, Alexander Colquhoun from 'The Age', noted, "What might be described as a modified modern influence."
In 1935 Christina held her last exhibition at the Athenaeum. She was sixty years old. Streeton did not agree with her vision of her landscapes, criticising her for not revealing wider contrasts or differences in three varying aspects of nature in her pictures of 'Morning', 'Afternoon' and 'Evening'. He never said anything positive about Christina. He obviously had forgotten that once his own style had been considered very individual.