45. EMANUEL PHILLIPS FOX

(1865-1915)
TOWN ON THE SOMME (ALSO KNOWN AS FRENCH VILLAGE: LONG ON THE SOMME) c.1907
Signed E. Phillips Fox lower left, titled A French Village: Long on the Somme on label verso
Oil on panel
16 x 21cm

Estimate: $5,000/7,000
Hammer Price - $4,500

Partial study painted verso. Town on the Somme is related to (French village) and Nocturne of Village Cottages (verso).

Provenance: "Spring Exhibition", Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 8 - 24 November 1972, catalogue number 25.
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, October - November 1982, catalogue number 41.
Leonard Joel Auctions, Melbourne, 1/5/2001, lot number 293.
"The Sunday Art Auction", Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 13/12/2009, lot number 59.
Private Collection, Perth.

Referenced: "E. Phillips Fox - His Life and Art", Ruth Zubans, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 1995 cat. No. 254, page 223.