Russell Drysdale (1912-1981)
Desert Children 1958
Estimate: $300000 - 360000
Sold For:
$330000 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 Menzies, Sydney, 23 June 2011, lot 40 Private collection, Melbourne Menzies, Sydney, 21 March 2013, lot 43 Company 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 (as Kimberley Landscape) The Red Shirt 1958, oil on canvas, 76.0 x 101.0 cm, illus. in Klepac, L., The Life and Work of Russell Drysdale, Murdoch Books, Sydney, 1983, p.322, pl.140
Estimate: $300000 - 360000
Result Hammer: $330000