Soap Box Derby 1938

Danila Vassilieff (1897-1958)

Soap Box Derby 1938

oil on plywood
39.5 x 50.0 cm

signed lower left: Vassilieff signed indistinctly lower right: Vassilieff

Provenance:

Acquired from the artist, Helen Aron, Victoria, 1940

Thence by descent, private collection, Victoria

Exhibited:

Adrian Lawlor: A Portrait, Heide Park & Art Gallery, Victoria, 1983, cat.59

Vassilieff: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Sculptures and Watercolours, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Victoria, 11 August - 22 September 1985; Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 12 October 1985 - 2 February 1986; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 4 March - 2 April 1986

Home Thoughts from Abroad, Fairfield Regional Heritage Centre, Sydney, 1998

Reference:

Moore, F., Vassilieff and his Art, 1st edition, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1982, pp.43, 146, cat.87 (illus. p.41)

Moore, F., Vassilieff and his Art, 2nd edition, Macmillan Art Publishing, Melbourne, 2012, p.200, cat.129 (illus. p.52)

Fry, G., Artwork, Edmund & Alexander, Newcastle, 2016, p.10 (illus.)

Estimate: $40000 - 50000

Result Hammer: $48000