Family Group 1953

Russell Drysdale (1912-1981)

Family Group 1953

oil on board
35.0 x 45.5 cm

signed lower right: Russell Drysdale

signed and inscribed verso: FAMILY GROUP./ RUSSELL DRYSDALE,/ MACQUARIE GALLERIES,/ 19 BLIGH STREET, SYDNEY

Provenance:

Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 1953 (label attached verso)

Collection of Mrs Vera Fels, Sydney

Christie’s, Sydney, 5 October 1971, lot 283

Private collection

Christie’s, Sydney, 3 October 1973, lot 500

Private collection

Christie’s, Melbourne, 14 March 1974, lot 406

Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney

Collection of Dr Anne Walker, United Kingdom

Estate of the above

Exhibited:

One Man Show, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 18 November - 4 December 1953, cat.5

Russell Drysdale: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings from 1937 to 1960, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 5 October - 6 November 1960, cat.88 (label attached verso)

Reference:

'At Sydney Galleries: Russell Drysdale,' Le Courrier Australien, Sydney, 27 November 1953, p.5

Dutton, G., Russell Drysdale, Thames & Hudson, London, 1964, p.189 (illus. pl.83)

Drysdale, R., et al., Russell Drysdale: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings from 1937 to 1960 with an Introduction by Paul Haefliger, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1960, p.60, cat.88

Related Works:

Shopping Day 1953, oil on canvas, 60.0 x 75.0 cm, collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, purchased 1988

Station Blacks, Cape York 1953, oil on board, 60.5 x 72.5 cm, collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, purchased 1954

Landscape in Brown and Yellow 1953, oil on composition board, 46.0 x 61.0 cm, sold Sotheby's, Melbourne, 14 May 2013, lot 7

Group of Aborigines 1953, oil on canvas, 50.0 x 60.0 cm, sold Christie's, Melbourne, 6 May 2003, lot 44

Estimate: $200000 - 300000

Result Hammer: $200000