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Golden Summer, Eaglemont
Golden Summer, Eaglemont is an 1889 landscape painting by Australian artist Arthur Streeton. Painted "en plein air" at the height of a summer drought, it is an idyllic depiction of sunlit, undulating plains that stretch from Eaglemont—an "artists' camp" established by Streeton the previous year in rural Heidelberg—to the distant blue Dandenong Ranges, outside Melbourne. Naturalistic yet poetic, and a conscious effort by the 21-year-old Streeton to create his grandest work yet, it is a prime
the permanent collection of the National Gallery, London. It sits alongside major impressionist works by Claude Monet and Édouard Manet.
Prices.
Streeton's paintings are amongst the most collectible of Australian artists and attracted high prices during his lifetime. "Golden Summer, Eaglemont" sold for around 1000 guineas in 1924 and in 1995 it was bought in a private sale by the National Gallery of Australia for A$3.5 million, both times setting a sales record for an Australian painting. In 1985, "Settler's Camp"