Desert Children 1958

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

Menzies, Sydney, 26 March 2015, lot 48

Company collection, Victoria

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 - 380000

Result Hammer: $350000