RUSSELL DRYSDALE (1912-1981)
Desert Children 1958
Estimate: $300000 - 360000
Sold For:
$210000 hammer
Description
RUSSELL DRYSDALE (1912-1981)
Desert Children 1958
oil on canvas
50.5 x 61.0 cm
signed lower left: Russell Drysdale
Provenance:
Leicester Galleries, London, 1958
Russell Family Collection, London
Thence by decent, private collection, Queensland
Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 5 December 2007, lot 35
Private collection, Melbourne
Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 23 September 2009, lot 42
Private collection, Melbourne
Exhibited:
Summer Exhibition, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, 30 January - 17 February 2007, cat.1 (illus. exhibition catalogue)
Related Works:
Landscape in the Kimberleys 1958, oil on canvas, 76.0 x 127.0 cm, illus. in Klepac, L., The Life and Work of Russell Drysdale, Murdoch Books, Sydney, 1983, p.324, pl. 143 (titled as; 'Kimberley Landscape')
The Red Shirt 1958, 76.2 x 101.2 cm, illus. op cit., p.322, pl.140
Estimate: $300000 - 360000
Result Hammer: $210000
Location
VIEWING MELBOURNE
9-12 June 11am-6pm, 1pm-6pm Sunday
Menzies Gallery
1 Darling St.,
SOUTH YARRA VIC 3141
VIEWING SYDNEY
16-22 June 11am-6pm, 1pm-6pm Sunday
Menzies Gallery
12 Todman Avenue
KENSINGTON NSW 2033
Menzies Art Brands Pty Ltd trading as Menzies