The 100 works – from a private Adelaide collection – feature several quality artists who are not necessarily as well known as some of their more famous counterparts.
According to Leonard Joel art manager Maggie Skelton the collection includes several female artists who also followed the post Impressionist style in their works.
“For example, Marie Tuck, a South Australian who lived in France for many years and painted Australian landscapes with a post Impressionist influence and fellow post Impressionist artist Rose Lowcay,” she said.
Other women artists of note in the collection include Lisette Kohlhagen – a great linocut and protruder – still life proponent Margaret Preston and Dora Black.
Among the South Australian male artists of note are Richard Hayley Lever, Noel Wood and Francis Roy Thompson.
Kohlhagen’s auction pieces include Still Life with Sunflowers (Lot 3211 ) (above) and The Old Church Bell, (Lot 3239 ) while Lowcay has a painting entitled Autumn Trees (Lot 3277 ).
Lever’s Luxembourg Gardens, Paris (Lot 3297 ) and Wood’s Tropical Landscape (Lot 3232 ) are other works worth considering – along with Rex Wood’s Red Dust, (Lot 3250 ) Jacqueline Hick’s Sea Dance (Lot 3253 ) and Arthur D’Auvergne Boxhall’s Palms and Lagoon (Lot 3266 ).
