Live Auction 5038Modern and Contemporary Australian Art
Grace Cossington Smith (1892-1984)
Lot 20 PROPERTY FROM THE FAMILY OF THE ARTIST
(Lots 20-22)

Grace Cossington Smith (1892-1984)

Looking over Tusketts

Closed23 September 2010

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GBP 7,500

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Grace Cossington Smith (1892-1984)
Looking over Tusketts
signed and dated 'G. Cossington Smith. 1950' (lower left), inscribed and dated 'Looking over Tusketts. Sept, 1950.' on the reverse
oil on board
10 5/8 x 13¾in. (27 x 35cm.)

A gift from the artist to her sister, Mabel, and thence by descent to the present owners.

Specialist note

The present and following lots are Devon landscapes which date to Cossington Smith's visit to England and the continent with her sisters Madge and Diddy in 1948-51: 'During her time away, Cossington Smith stayed mostly with an old school friend, Nell Campbell, at Brook Cottage near Sussex ... She also spent time with her married sister Mabel Pakenham-Walsh, and other relatives including her cousin Frances Crawshaw in Devon. ... Among her lasting memories of this stay abroad was an exhibition of landscape painting at the Royal Academy in London ... "oh they were absolutely wonderful ... the Cézanne landscapes" (D. Hart (ed.), op. cit., p.71)