SIDE STREET TOORAK, c.1944

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
25 November 2009
155

Alan Sumner

(1911 - 1994)
SIDE STREET TOORAK, c.1944

screenprint

35.0 x 43.0 cm

signed and titled below image

Estimate: 
$2,000 - 3,000
Sold for $3,840 (inc. BP) in Auction 12 - 25 November 2009, Melbourne
Provenance

Eastgate Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne

This is possibly the first colour screenprint produced in Australia. The subject depicts Clendon Road houses at the back of St John's Anglican Church, Toorak.

Exhibited

Alan Sumner, The Complete Screenprint Collection 1944–48, Eastgate Gallery, Melbourne, 17 October – 14 November 1993, cat. 1 (illus.)

Literature

Butler, R., Alan Sumner Screenprints, Eastgate Gallery, Melbourne, 1993, p. 19 (illus.)