Longtime Lavender Bay home of late artist Peter Kingston to hit the … – realestate.com.au

Jonathan Chancellor
First published 26 Dec 2022, 12:00am
Sydney artist Peter Kingston pictured in his Lavender Bay home where he is preparing his latest exhibition called ‘first light’. Picture: Toby Zerna
No sign yet, but the longtime Lavender Bay home of late artist Peter Kingston will hit the market early next year.
The listing follows last week’s wake and the sale of what was his last collection of works through Stuart Purves’ Australian Galleries.
Known for capturing activity on Sydney Harbour, Kingston bought the property in 1977 for $35,250.
He died from lung cancer in September, aged 79, and is survived by sisters Caroline and Fairlie, niece Annie and nephew Clary.
Kingston’s father, Percy, who studied at Julian Ashton Art School and became the Sydney agent for 20th Century Fox, died in 1974, leaving an inheritance that enabled the purchase of the house.
The longtime Lavender Bay home of late artist Peter Kingston will hit the market early next year. Picture: Toby Zerna
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Kingston’s Paddington solicitor, Nicholas Eddy, has recently had estate agents through the Walker St home to get an appraisal.
It adjoins the abode of his artistic friends, Wendy Whiteley and the late Brett Whiteley, who bought their property for $50,000 in 1974 when it was a wreck.
Brett had builder Terry Stanton supervise the renovations as they converted it from flats back into a single residence. Brett had offered him a painting of a pool in exchange for the cost of its construction.
It emerged earlier this year that the Whiteley home will be sold when Wendy passes away, and her collection of artworks will be donated to the Art Gallery of NSW in a cultural gift.
Her heritage-listed home will not be preserved in public ownership, but rather sold with the proceeds placed in trust to secure the future of the collection and the Brett Whiteley Studio, in Surry Hills.
Wendy said it made no sense to turn into another museum, adding she envisaged the house needed a creative family again.
With the passing of their daughter, Arkie, from cancer, in 2001, Wendy, now in her 80s, became the sole custodian of his legacy.
Pink Ferry by artist Peter Kingston. Picture: Katrina Tepper.
The residence had become their home upon their return from two years in New York, via a short time in Fiji.
Its outlook over Lavender Bay features in many of Brett’s major works.
In 2020, his Henri Matisse-inspired canvas Henri’s Armchair painting, from the artist’s well-known Lavender Bay series, sold for $5m, with the auction house premium taking the total price to $6.136m.
Meanwhile, the suburb’s priciest listing has yet to find a buyer.
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Idlemere, set on the waterfront, was publicly listed in October with expectations of realising $50m, having been offered by Kerry and Greg Paramor, the property industry veteran. They bought the historic 1400sq m property in 2001 for $7.25m.
Estate agent Alison Coopes had a December 6 expressions of interest deadline for the 1880s residence.
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