Landscape in the Kimberleys (also known as Kimberley Landscape) 1958

RUSSELL DRYSDALE (1912-1981)

Landscape in the Kimberleys (also known as Kimberley Landscape) 1958

oil on canvas
76.0 x 127.0 cm
signed lower left: Russell Drysdale
inscribed on frame verso: RUSSELL DRYSDALE/ C/o LEICESTER GALLERIES/ LANDSCAPE IN THE KIMBERLEYS

Provenance:
Col. Robert Adeane, London (label attached verso)
The Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Perth (label attached verso)
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne
Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 7 December 2005, lot 20
Private company collection, Melbourne
Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 18 June 2008, lot 29
Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:
New Paintings of Northern Australia by Russell Drysdale, Leicester Galleries, London, 10 April - 1 May 1958, cat.6 (illus. exhibition catalogue)
Recent Australian Painting 1961, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, June - July 1961, cat.20 (illus. exhibition catalogue, pl.XVII)
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (label attached verso)
Treasures from the Commonwealth, Commonwealth Arts Festival, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, 17 September - 13 November 1965, cat.143
Russell Drysdale, Monash University Art Gallery, Melbourne, 13 March - 16 April 1987, cat.64

Reference:
Dutton, G., Russell Drysdale, Thames and Hudson, London, 1964, p.190, (illus. pl.97) as 'Kimberley Landscape'
Klepac, L., The Life and Work of Russell Drysdale, Bay Books, Sydney, 1983, pp.153 & 368, (illus. pl.143) as 'Kimberley Landscape'
Duncan, J., Russell Drysdale, Monash University, Melbourne, 1987, p.44, cat.64
Carter, P., 'Reassessing Russell Drysdale', Art and Australia, vol.25, no.1, Spring 1987, p.62 (illus.)
Klepac, L., Russell Drysdale, Murdoch Books, Sydney, 2009, p.280 (illus. p.286, pl.143) as 'Kimberley Landscape'

Estimate: $800000 - 1000000

Result Hammer: $760000