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Arthur Streeton And the Sunlight Clasps the Earth 1895

3 December 2016

9:00 AM

3 December 2016

9:00 AM

Last week you could have done some Christmas shopping at the Mossgreen and Sotheby’s art auctions in Sydney. You might have picked up more stocking fillers at Mossgreen rather than Sotheby’s grander offerings but there were not many bargains to be had at either sale. A star piece at Mossgreen was Jeffrey Smart’s Dividing Line, Study 1 (1977-8) which sold for $114,700; the image was used on the cover of his autobiography Not Quite Straight as well as this catalogue.

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