PAINTINGS STOLEN IN SYDNEY
ADVICE RECEIVED BY ART GALLERY
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, January 23. The National Art Gallery, Wellington, has received advice from Dr. W. O. Paul, of Sydney, about two early and well-known paintings, by the late Sir Arthur Streeton, which disappeared from his collection of Australian paintings which were on loan to the Sydney University. Dr. Paul said that the pictures were too well known for anyone to try to dispose of them in New South Wales and that they might find their way to New Zealand.
The pictures are believed to have disappeared from the premises of the University Union during the Christmas vacation. They had been on loan to the union for some time.
One picture, 13 inches by six inches, represents a street scene in Cairo as seen through an archway. It has “Arthur Streeton, 1898,” on the painting, and the title on the frame is “Street Scene in Cairo.” The second painting, 15 inches by eight inches, has “Arthur Streeton, 1893,” on the painting, and the title “Water Carrier or Seller of Drink” on the frame. It shows' a tall Egyptian carrying a brown piece of pottery.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25091, 24 January 1947, Page 5
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