Red Landscape 1958

RUSSELL DRYSDALE (1912-1981)

Red Landscape 1958

oil on canvas
76.0 x 101.5 cm
signed lower left: Russell Drysdale

Provenance:
Leicester Galleries, London, 1958 (label attached verso)

Mrs Cynthia Newbiggin-Watts

Private collection, Perth

Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, 29 October 2003, lot 31

Private collection, Melbourne

Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 13 March 2007, lot 32

Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:
Russell Drysdale: New Paintings of Northern Australia, Leicester Galleries, London, 10 April - 9 May 1958, cat.11 (illus. p.9, exhibition catalogue) (label attached verso)

Russell Drysdale Retrospective Exhibition 1937-1960, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, October - November 1960, cat.95 (label attached verso)

Reference:
Melville, R., 'Exhibitions', Architectural Review, London, vol.124, July 1958, pp.56-57, (illus.)
Dutton, G., Russell Drysdale, London, 1964, p.190, cat.101 (Illus.)
Klepac, L., The Life and Work of Russell Drysdale, Murdoch Books, Sydney, 1983, p.153
Klepac, L., Russell Drysdale, Murdoch Books, Sydney, 2009, p.280

Estimate: $900000 - 1100000

Result Hammer: $900000