Blue Pacific (Streeton)

Blue Pacific is an 1890 oil on canvas landscape painting by Australian artist Arthur Streeton.

The painting depicts a headland on the northern end of the eastern Sydney suburb of Coogee.

[1] Blue Pacific was one of Streeton's first paintings after he moved to Sydney.

I'll come here to die I think.The painting was purchased by Central Coast businessman Jeff d'Albora for AUD1.08M in 2005.

[1] Gallery director Gabriele Finaldi said the painting demonstrates the influence of French impressionism on Australian art: "Here was a way of capturing the fleeting effects of light and atmosphere in nature when depicting landscapes that had never been depicted before.