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
Menzies, Sydney, 24 June 2010, lot 35
Property of an investment syndicate
Menzies, Sydney, 23 June 2011, lot 47
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

Related Works:
Two other paintings by Drysdale carry the title Red Landscape, a 1945 landscape in the collection of Rupert Murdoch via his father Sir Keith Murdoch, and another of 1965, also in a private collection.

Estimate: $700000 - 900000

Result Hammer: $640000