6th September 2009 12:00 PM
13 Tivoli Place, South Yarra 3141, Victoria Australia.
13 Tivoli Place, South Yarra 3141, Victoria Australia.
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Important Estate Auction,of the effects of the late Mrs. Marjorie May KingstonUnder favoured instructions from the Executor of the Estate:
Mr. Peter J. Walsh, Solicitor.
To be conducted on the property.13 Tivoli Place, South Yarra Sunday 6th September 2009, commencing 12 noon.
On View in situation:
Additional Viewing
Viewing is also available Monday 31st August – Friday 4th September by appointment. Please contact:
By telephone on 61 (03) 9428 2850 or by email at nick.denby@ainger.com.au.
Lot 286:
Ethel Carrick Fox. 1872-1952. Australia, Britain, France. Buying Flowers Signed 'Carrick Fox' lower left. Oil on canvas. 59 x 80 cm. Notes: Labels Verso read "Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet/19 Rue Vavin et rue Brea, Paris VI/Couleurs at Toiles Fines." "Buying Flowers - Carrick-Fox." Painted circa 1920's. Provenance: Purchased Joseph Brown Gallery, Autumn Exhibition 1973, Item Number 23. Original catalogue exhibited.
A major collection of Australian Colonial, Impressionist and Modernist Paintings and Pottery.
Artists include among others, Rupert Bunny, Frederick McCubbin, John Perceval, Ethel Carrick Fox, Emanuel Phillips Fox, Elioth Gruner, Walter Withers, John Glover, Abram-Louis Buvelot, John Peter Russell, Robert Johnson, Danila Vassillieff, William Gould, William Dobell, and important pottery by Klytie Pate.
The important collection was primarily purchased from Joseph Brown Gallery in the 1970s.
We will also be auctioning Mrs. Kingston’s impressive antique furnishings, collected over five decades from Melbourne and London’s finest Antique dealers, including pieces from John W. Kenny, John D. Dunn and Kent Antiques.
Everything is being sold in situation, and is the sole property of the late Marjorie Kingston.
The daughter of Henry and Anne Tatnall, Marjorie May Kingston was born at their residence 23 Rubens Grove, Canterbury on 6th May 1918 and educated at Presbyterian Ladies College, East Melbourne, matriculating in 1936. Thereafter she became involved with the firm of Brooks Robinson, 59 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, of which her father was Managing Director (1923-1957), and which was not only a major retailer of white goods, but also the pre-eminent manufacturer of stained glass in Australia.
From 1939 Marjorie regularly accompanied her father on his bi-annual visits to London where her free time was spent at the major Galleries and in the antique shops of Kensington Church Street and Chelsea, which nurtured what was to become her life long passion.
Marjorie’s father was elected to the Melbourne City Council, in 1944, as the representative for Hoddle Ward and for the ensuing fourteen years he served on the Council, she constantly assisted him and acted as his hostess. In 1972 she married Dr. Ronald Kingston, a distinguished Psychiatrist, who died in 2004.
Tivoli Place, South Yarra, which Marjorie herself purchased in 1968, had originally been the home of the renowned architect Harold Desbrowe-Annear. In 1926 he changed a simple Victorian cottage to his own taste by a number of alterations, including the building of a large salon with his inimitable windows, which to this day remain a dramatic feature of this unique house.
Marjorie’s house became the repository for her ever increasing eclectic collection of art, which ranges from the early Colonial artists such as Glover and the early Tasmanian portraits of her paternal ancestors, through to the impressionists and social realists, to the botanical artists of the late 20th century. Importantly she was a close friend and admirer of Dr. Joseph Brown AO OBE, whose advice influenced and guided her in her selection of paintings. Most of which she purchased at his seasonal Exhibitions. She consistently retained all receipts and catalogues pertaining to these purchases, as indeed was the case with her purchase of furniture, porcelain and silver.
Not withstanding her passion for art, Marjorie also amassed significant collections of antique furniture, porcelain and silver. In this respect her life long friendship with the noted Melbourne collector, the late John W Kenny, assisted her to make insightful decisions as to both quality and design in her acquisition of countless objects d’art.
We cordially invite you to view and participate in this outstanding and historically noteworthy auction.
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