GA043 | Australian & International Art
Gibson’s Australian & International Art Department offers paintings, sculptures and works on paper across the traditional, modern, contemporary art movements in the Australian, Indigenous, Oceanic and International realms. Department staff have gained extensive knowledge and understanding of the art market through decades of combined experience in the art auction and commercial gallery sectors. The Department maintains a shared focus on transparency, honesty and is dedicated to ensuring a positive client experience for both buyers and vendors. We host two dedicated live Australian & International Art auctions a year, in April and October, supported by seasonal online art auctions. Gibson’s also maintains strong relationships with galleries and institutions and may be able to facilitate Private Sales. Our specialists are always available for complimentary and confidential valuations of single works or entire collections, so please reach out one of our department members below.
Gibson’s Australian & International Art Department offers paintings, sculptures and works on paper across the traditional, modern, contemporary art movements in the Australian, Indigenous, Oceanic and International realms. Department staff have gained extensive knowledge and understanding of the art market through decades of combined experience in the art auction and commercial gallery sectors. The Department maintains a shared focus on transparency, honesty and is dedicated to ensuring a positive client experience for both buyers and vendors.
We host two dedicated live Australian & International Art auctions a year, in April and October, supported by seasonal online art auctions. Gibson’s also maintains strong relationships with galleries and institutions and may be able to facilitate Private Sales. Our specialists are always available for complimentary and confidential valuations of single works or entire collections, so please reach out one of our department members below.
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WALTER WITHERS (1854-1914)<br />
Beach Scene<br />
watercolour<br />
signed lower left: Walter Withers<br />
17 x 48.5cm<br />
PROVENANCE<br />
Thirty Victoria Street Galleries, Sydney (label attached verso)<br />
Christie's, Melbourne, 28 April 1976, Lot 446<br />
Private Collection, Melbourne<br />
Leonard Joel, Melbourne<br />
Private Collection, Melbourne<br />
EXHIBITED<br />
Walter Withers: A Survey, Geelong <strong>Art</strong> Gallery, Geelong, 10<br />
October – 21 November 1975, cat. no. 52 (label attached verso).<br />
LITERATURE<br />
Walter Withers: A Survey, Geelong <strong>Art</strong> Gallery, Geelong, 1975,<br />
unpaginated (illus.)<br />
OTHER NOTES<br />
Walter Withers' contribution to <strong>Australian</strong> <strong>Art</strong> was as a leading<br />
figure in the 'Heidelberg School'. His paintings, however,<br />
conjure the Neo Romantic lyrical moods of nature. It is the<br />
Impressionism of Monet. In a sense they were decadents, for<br />
they persisted in rendering nature suffused with soft romantic<br />
haze. Such painting has often been described as an endeavour<br />
to capture the 'spirit' of the landscape, 'the meaning within<br />
the meaning', not to record its anatomy but to portray its soul.<br />
Bernard Smith (on gallery label affixed verso)<br />
$5,000–8,000<br />
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