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Lot 249

Christian WALLER (née YANDELL) (1894–1954)
St Peter's Sermon on the morning of the Pentecost – A cartoon for a stained glass window
Tempera or gouache, varnished
Signed lower right: Christian Waller
23.5 x 10cm (sight, the top shaped)

Estimate $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $4,400

Apparently in very good condition, the medium and its varnish well preserved.

(In preparing this report the work has not been examined out of its frame.)


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Kay Craddock, Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne (her catalogue 205, October 2004, cat. no. 15), from whom acquired by Terence Lane in October, 2004


A cartoon, circa 1936, for a window in the Baptistery of the Littlejohn Memorial Chapel, Scotch College, Melbourne (discussed and illustrated in C. Miley, Christian Waller Stained Glass – Towards the Light (2022), pp 198–200).

The Terence Lane Collection, Part I

AUCTION
Sale: LJ8814
11:00am - 3 May 2026
Hawthorn

VIEWING
Viewing in Carlton by appointment only. Lots 241 - 277 viewing in Hawthorn by appointment only. Bookings via decorativearts@leonardjoel.com.au

CONTACT
Chiara Curcio
decorativearts@leonardjoel.com.au


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